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FEATURES WDEPARTMENTS THE BEACON: SHINING A LIGHT ON THE CAMPUS FOR NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS The University’s first campus newspaper offers a unique perspective on the history of the institution. By Terry E. Ross ’80 UNIVERSITY REPORT Page 12 The latest news from William Paterson 11 Page 4

WP HAS A “SIT-DOWN” WITH JOE PISTONE/DONNIE BRASCO Former FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone ’65 talks candidly about his undercover life in the Mafia and subsequent career as an ON CAMPUS author and television/film producer and consultant. Engaging people and interesting events By Christine S. Diehl Page 8 Page 16

DEVELOPMENT NEWS SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE, UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Advancing academic excellence through philanthropy SERVE THE COMMUNITY Page 24 William Paterson students demonstrate the growing national trend of civic engagement programs and community-based learning. By Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A. ’94 PIONEER NEWS Page 20 Athletics Highlights Page 28

PAGE SPOTLIGHT W1 Alumni News ONE Page 31 20 PARTING SHOT Archery Class Page 44

WHAT’S UP WP Calendar of upcoming events Inside Back Cover

Volume 7, Number 1 Fall/Winter 2005 WPERSPECTIVE THE MAGAZINE OF WILLIAM WPATERSON UNIVERSITY Volume 7, No. 1 Winter 2006

EXECUTIVE EDITOR Stuart Goldstein, Associate Vice President Dear Friends, for Institutional Advancement

MANAGING EDITORS Last March, a group of William Paterson students headed south for spring Lorraine Terraneo, Executive Director, break but, instead of the traditional relaxation at the beach, they spent the week in Marketing and Public Relations; Mechanicsville, Virginia, volunteering on a Habitat for Humanity project to build a Mary Beth Zeman, Director, Public Relations house for a family in need. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION These, and many other dedicated William Paterson students, are vibrant examples Domenick Stampone ’94, President of the Alumni of a national trend toward increased volunteerism and civic engagement by young Executive Council; Judith Linder, Executive Director of people. The devastation of lives and property caused by hurricanes Katrina and Alumni Relations; Audrey Bonaparte-Watts ’95, Assistant Director; Rodney Cauthen ’97, Alumni Associate Rita have brought out the best in many Americans who have donated time, energy, and financial resources. Examples of these volunteer efforts are heart-warming and MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS inspiring. So are the efforts of those, including our own students, who work on an Editorial: Christine Diehl, Brian Falzarano, Minne Hong ongoing basis to assist people and programs in their communities. Ho, Robert A. Manuel, Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A. ’94, Terry E. Ross ’80, Phillip Sprayberry In a feature story in this issue of WP Magazine, we highlight the dedication Design: Nadia Esposito ’04, Bob Verbeek ’95 of a wide range of William Paterson students and the institutional commitment to incorporate civic engagement into the learning process. PUBLICATION DESIGN AGCD, Montclair, NJ - Allan Gorman, Art Director; Last year, the University began participation in the American Democracy Suzanne Giovanetti, Designer Project, a national program that works to create an understanding of and appreciation PHOTOGRAPHY for civic engagement by undergraduate students. The project is sponsored by the Bill Blanchard; Pete Byron; Rich Green; Brigitta Hanggi; American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the New York Times. Jersey Pictures, Inc.; Lee Isbell of Studio 16; “Donnie Our participation has blossomed into a civic engagement across the curriculum Brasco” © 1997 Mandalay Entertaiment, All Rights initiative highlighted by faculty development of courses with a civic engagement Reserved, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment component in all five of our colleges.

WP is published by the Office of Institutional Advancement, The American Democracy Project has conducted a number of other successful Sandra Deller, Vice President. Views expressed within these initiatives on campus, including an effort to encourage students to vote in the 2004 pages do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors or presidential election and then, an effort to build on the success of that voting drive official policies of the University. © 2006 by The William by encouraging students to vote in the fall gubernatorial election. Paterson University of New Jersey, www.wpunj.edu The response of our students and faculty to the project, combined with the ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL OFFICES individual efforts of so many other students, provides much optimism for the future WP, The Magazine of William Paterson University and demonstrates what can be accomplished when people care and act to have a Office of Institutional Advancement positive impact on others. William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road Wayne, NJ 07470-2103; 973.720.2615 As always at William Paterson University, we feel an obligation to provide [email protected] students with the education and experiences that create a foundation for successful PAGE lives. Our commitment to a balance between academic and experiential learning is SEND CHANGES OF ADDRESS TO THE: W2 evident throughout the University. It is heartening to see so many of our students TWO Office of Alumni Relations, William Paterson University, The Allan and Michele Gorab Alumni build on those experiences to reach higher levels of achievement as students and as House, 42 Harmon Place, North Haledon, NJ 07508; dedicated citizens of the world. 973.720.2175 Sincerely, WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY Arnold Speert, President

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Arnold Speert Robert H. Taylor, Chairperson President Sonia Rosado, Vice Chairperson Carla Temple, Secretary WE WELCOME LETTERS ABOUT WP, The Magazine of William Paterson University and will continue to publish some of Aaron Burroughs • Kenneth Campbell • Peter Fan • your views in future issues. Letters may be edited for clarity and space. You may write to: • • Jenny Gehrmann Michael L. Jackson Letters to the Editor; Frederick L. Gruel • Vincent J. Mazzola ’73 • WP, The Magazine of William Paterson University William J. Pesce ’73 • Henry J. Pruitt, Jr. P.O. Box 913 Wayne, NJ 07404-0913 or feel free to drop us a note by e-mail at: [email protected] 2006 Legacy Honorees Joseph and Marcia Bograd • Founders, Bograd’s Fine Furniture The Pharmaceutical and Medical Technology Industry of New Jersey • Award Accepted by The Honorable Robert D. Franks, President, HealthCare Institute of New Jersey; U.S. House of Representatives, Seventh District (1993- 2001) 16th Annual The Reverend Louis J. Scurti, Ph.D. (“Father Lou”) • Director, Catholic Campus Ministry, Bishop Rodimer Catholic Campus Ministry Center, and the Legacy Award Gala Jesus Christ Prince of Peace Chapel Distinguished Alumni Award and Silent/Live Auction Edna Cadmus ’76, Ph.D., RN, CNAA • College of Science and Health • Honoring the leadership of faculty, alumni, and members of Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services, Englewood Hospital and our community and supporting the development of future Medical Center Marjorie Falck Heller ’62, Ed.D., College of Education • Superintendent of leaders—our students Schools, Little Silver, NJ Susan Lisovicz ’78, College of the Arts and Communication • Correspon- April 8, 2006 dent, CNN; Co-host, In the Money Vincent Mazzola ’73, College of Humanities and Social Sciences • Vice The Villa at Mountain Lakes, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey President, Emerging Markets, Business Development, Lucent Technologies Cocktails, Dinner, Dancing, and Silent/Live Auction Faculty Service Award Festivities begin at 7:00 p.m. • Black Tie • Invitation to Follow Marion P. Turkish, Ph.D. • Professor, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, College of Education

HELPING TO SHAPE THE UNIVERSITY’S FUTURE I’m just so happy with the education I received at William Paterson. I’ve always been indebted to the University for preparing me so well for a very rewarding, forty-year career as a teacher…The University has expanded so much since the time I was last there...That’s why I feel I need to support this wonderful institution of learning…I’m very much interested in furnishing scholarships, not only for students who can’t afford to go to college, but also for people who want to further their education in the field of teaching. “Like Richard Kulp, alumni and friends who make a planned gift to William Paterson will be recognized as members of the University’s newly established Hobart Society. For information on leaving a bequest to William Paterson or other planned giving opportunities, contact Joanne Nigrelli, executive director of development, at 973.720.2332 or via e-mail at [email protected]. ”

—RICHARD KULP ’58 B.A. in Education The Campaign Retired elementary school teacher Founding Member of The Hobart Society for William Paterson University A FFECTING L IVES ~ SHAPING W ORLDS WHO WE ARE UNIVERSITYREPORT WHAT WE’RE DOING

WHO WE ARE

Pictorial History Published In Celebration of University’s 150th Anniversary The University’s 150th anniversary is commemorated in a new, 128-page pic- torial history titled William Paterson University, written by CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: SCHOOL NO. 6, Vincent N. Parrillo, 1890 PROGRAM, ASSEMBLY a William Paterson WILLIAM PATERSON professor of sociology. tographs and documents at the Paterson UNIVERSITY BY VINCENT It features more Public Library and the Passaic County N. PARRILLO than two hundred Historical Society, as well as in the campus institution’s tremendous growth in academic photographs along with compelling histori- collections of the William Paterson programs and facilities in the 1960s, its cal narrative that chronicles the significant University Alumni Association and the transformation to a multipurpose liberal growth and development of the institution University Archive. arts college in the 1970s, and, in 1997, its from its founding in 1855 as Paterson “The book is filled with historical pho- designation as a university. The book also Normal School to its present stature as a tos, narration, and insights that tell of the includes chapters on academics, athletics, comprehensive regional university with people, places, and events that together college life, and the future direction of educational innovation and exceptional shaped William Paterson into the compre- the University. programs. hensive, regional university it is today,” says Parrillo joined the William Paterson William Paterson University was Parrillo. “My goal was to capture the essence community in 1966. An internationally published by Arcadia Publishing as part and spirit of the institution throughout its renowned authority on immigration, multi- of its Campus History Series. The book history, not just the chronological unfolding culturalism, race, and ethnic relations, he is available at online bookstores of its evolution from normal school to is the author of six books and numerous and through Arcadia Publishing at regional university. I wanted to acquaint scholarly articles. He produced, wrote, and

PAGE www.arcadiapublishing.com or readers with the people behind the names narrated the 1990 award-winning PBS-TV W4 888.313.2665. It retails for $19.99. affixed to buildings and to have each cap- documentary, Ellis Island: Gateway to FOUR To gather information for the book, tion not just describe its picture but also America, and the critically acclaimed Parrillo searched through countless pho- advance the story of the University's past, PBS-TV documentary, Smokestacks and present, and future. Moreover, as Steeples: A Portrait of Paterson. a sociologist, I looked to add a The recipient of Fulbright Scholar and strong human dimension to this Fulbright Senior Specialist awards, Parrillo historical portrait.” has served as scholar-in-residence at the The book covers the institu- University of Pisa. Since 1991, the U.S. tion’s early years, from its founding Information Agency has sent him abroad in 1855 in a Paterson schoolhouse more than a dozen times to confer with to train teachers for the public government officials and give lectures and schools of Paterson to its move press conferences on minority rights issues. to the current campus in Wayne He is also the co-author, with Beth Parrillo in 1951. It also documents the and Arthur Wrubel, of Ridgewood, a picto- STUDENTS AT BARBOUR’S POND IN WEST PATERSON, 1941 rial history of his hometown. UNIVERSITY

Bill Cosby Headlines Benefit Last year, Terry, one of the most influential BILL COSBY AND CLARK TERRY Performance for Creation of jazz trumpeters and a founding father of the The Clark Terry Concert Hall jazz education movement, donated his extensive archive, including manuscripts, recordings and At the University memorabilia, to William Paterson, home of the internationally renowned jazz studies program. As part of REPORT the establishment of the Clark Terry Archive, the University announced its intention to raise funds for the Clark Terry Concert Hall that will house group of William Paterson jazz students the archival materials and from the new ensemble class he now teach- serve as the new home for es at the University. Then, joined on stage William Paterson’s acclaimed by Cosby, he performed with his Titans of Jazz Room Series and other Jazz Big Band, which includes, among oth- performances. ers, William Paterson faculty, students, and “Sometimes, when we jazz alumni. POSING PRIOR TO THE EVENT WERE (REAR, L. TO R.) MULGREW MILLER AND DAVID people perform or have a spe- “This was a memorable evening in DEMSEY, LEADERS OF THE UNIVERSITY’S JAZZ STUDIES PROGRAM, BILL COSBY, cial occasion, we think that support of an exciting initiative,” says PRESIDENT ARNOLD SPEERT, (FRONT, L. TO R.) JIMMY HEATH, AND CLARK TERRY ‘it’s only amongst ourselves,’ Arnold Speert, president. “We are hon- The Bill Cosby Dream Band, featuring jazz that it’s not important, that ored that Bill Cosby joined with us to help legend Clark Terry, fellow jazz great Jimmy ‘it’s only us, it’s only jazz’ – but this is tremen- to build excitement for our plans to con- Heath, Terry’s Titans of Jazz Big Band, and dously important,” said Cosby prior to the struct an outstanding concert hall that will William Paterson University students, event. “The fact that an institution like benefit students and the community. The joined together on November 8 in a special William Paterson University would have the hall will ensure that the wealth of impor- fund-raising musical performance to bene- vision to build Clark Terry Hall and name it tant material in the Clark Terry Archive fit the creation of the Clark Terry Concert after a living jazz icon is just incredible. People will be visible and accessible to scholars Hall at the University. The event drew a should realize how important it is and support and jazz fans.” full house in Shea Center on campus. this effort.” Cosby, who began his career as a warm-up BILL COSBY AND THE TITANS OF JAZZ BIG BAND "This was one of the most memorable, act and emcee in jazz fantastic nights of my career," says clubs, served as master Clark Terry. "Bill Cosby and William of ceremonies and “band frontman” for Paterson are a perfect match, like the event, and per- bread and butter! He loved the school, formed several humor- loved the students and the audience, ous routines with Terry, and it means a great deal that he wants Heath, and the band. Terry opened the con- to stay involved with William Paterson cert by performing sev- and this project." eral of his original compositions with a

PAGE W5 Gallery Exhibit Focuses tics to social issues,” says Nancy Einreinhofer, FIVE On 150 Years of Women’s director of the University’s Ben Shahn Collegiate Fashion Galleries. “The role of women in society in An article in the January 13, 1967 edition of particular has been reflected in the clothing the campus newspaper, The Beacon, focused they wear.” on a controversial campus issue: wasn’t it Drawing on archival materials dating from time that women be allowed to wear pants the institution’s earliest years as the Paterson to class? Normal School to current photographs, Ein- This article offers just a brief glimpse reinhofer explored the history of women’s into one of the most visible changes in the collegiate fashion in the context of a dynamic WOMEN’S FASHIONS CIRCA EARLY 1900S 150-year history of the University—namely, American culture in a semester-long exhibit, what students, particularly women, wear “Revelation and Revolution.” scoured local vintage clothing and antique on campus. “It was really a fascinating project,” says shops to document the evolution of “Clothing often reflects the larger con- Einreinhofer, who read numerous books, women’s collegiate fashion, which she out- cerns of a society, from economics and poli- pored over hundreds of photographs, and lines in a catalog that accompanies the

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 W PAGE SIX 6 UNIVERSITYREPORT W NTHE IN generation gap.”Whenmanycolleges still great equalizer, crossing classlinesandthe became auniform.Bluejeansthe statement bytheera’s flower children explains. “Inthe1960s,whatbeganasa lution isanon-campusphenomenon,”she denim asafashionstaple.“Therevo- women were responsible forthetrend of today’s casualandretro styles. in the1980s;andcurrent studentssporting byfemalestudents designer labelchicworn jeans andfringedjacketsinthe1960s; sweaters; studentsdressed inhippie-style 1950s co-edsinwideskirtsandcardigan dresses;long, white,high-neckedVictorian Normal SchoolClassof1903,outfittedin on campus.PhotographsdepictthePaterson demonstrate howmuchtimeshavechanged to fashion magazinesandsewingpatterns clothing, andothermemorabiliasuchas als, includingphotographs,actualvintage gave womenbroader choices.” boom inmanufacturingafterWorld War II, of ready-to-wear clothing,especiallythe industrial revolution, andthedevelopment of garmentsawomancouldown.The with socialclass,really restricted thenumber needed tobemadeforher. Thatfact,along sewing machines,soawoman’s dresses there were noready-made clothesandno exhibit. “In1855,whenwewere founded, OMEN In particular, Einreinhofer says,college The exhibitfeatures avarietyofmateri- 1950 ’ S F SIN NTHE ON ASHIONS S ( TOP ) N IN AND 2005 ( W ILLIAM BOTTOM P ATERSON ) C AMPUS S RMDPRRI FHSFATHER HIS OF PORTRAIT FRAMED A as partoftheexhibit. which havebeenfeat ed theirowncontemporar Drinkard, anassistantprofessor ofart,creat- from afashiondesigncoursetaughtby photos ofcurrent whotook time period,andDanielFernandez, who created fashionillustrationsforeach ed Karen Kozlowski,aseniormajoringinart, blyman, state senator, andeditor A. Williams, New Jersey assem- aformer hisfather, Henry of portrait with aframed businessman,Paterson presentedSpeert and initiatives.” ourprograms throughmanyto Paterson of and that we continue tohave aconnection “We arefortunate that we inthiscity, began says President Arnold Speert. university,” could nothave imagined itsgrowth intoa thecity’s millworkers. They of children for the teachers totrain an institution four peoplegathered tocreate inPaterson School. Normal asthePaterson in 1855Paterson commemorate theinstitution’s founding at Museumon thePaterson April 20to attended Day aspecialCharter Reception theUniversity alumni, andfriendsof hundredfaculty,More thanone staff, DayReception Includes Charter Sesquicentennial Celebration in designingthe DeLaura, associateprofessor ofart,assisted in asummerdesigncoursetaughtbyAngela embroidered, ripped,cuffed, andmore. inavarietyofstyles—bleached,dyed, worn Today jeansare ubiquitousoncampus,but way toshowindependenceandfreedom. Patersonuntil1967,denimwasa William for women,astheywere forwomenat had dress codesandslackswere forbidden ANDY During theevent, Sandy Williams, a “One hundredfifty years ago, threeor In conjunctionwiththeexhibit,students W ILLIAMS ( RIGHT catalog. students. Also, ) PRESENTS ured on Participants , H y fashion A RNOLD ENRY mannequins A. W six students S ER WITH PEERT designs, ILLIAMS includ- Nisha director ofRBI.“Thisbachelorscience saysJimBrown, executive two decades,” cess haschangeddramaticallyoverthelast ulated office environment. outstanding salesskillsinaninteractivesim- art facilitythatsupportsthedevelopmentof Professional SalesLaboratory, astate-of-the- and makeextensiveuseoftheRussBerrie gram are highlyinteractiveandexperiential force trainingforavarietyofbusinesses. continues toprovide consultingandsales advanced sales.Inaddition,theInstitute customer relationship building,and sales management,strategicaccountand ing, negotiation,globalperspectivesinsales, ness offers coursessuchasprofessional sell- the ChristosM.CotsakosCollegeofBusi- and businesssettings. the classroom through realistic hands-onsales ing oftheconceptsandtheoriesacquired in to applyanddemonstratetheirunderstand- allowsstudents focus onexperientiallearning today’s complexbusinessenvironment. A and practicalskillsrequired forsuccessin viding themwiththeacademicknowledge careers insalesandmanagement,pro- sales professionals. programs forundergraduatestudentsand cation thatprovides educationalandtraining between theprivatesectorandhigheredu- sional Sales(RBI),auniquepartnership University’s RussBerrieInstituteforProfes- sales. Theprogram isanoutgrowth ofthe bachelor ofsciencedegree inprofessionala education institutionintheworldtooffer undergraduate bachelor’s degree programs. Patersonhasaddedtwotimelynew William Sales Professional Programs inAsianStudies, University EstablishesDegree portrait is on display Manor. ison inHobart portrait University hasbeenlocated since1951. The estate, theHobart where the of purchase andspearheadedtheeventualcollege that looked for the at abuilding program acommitteeinthe1940s of also co-chair at School Hewas Paterson. State Normal by thecity,controlled totheNew Jersey entity an School, Normal Paterson from the theinstitution thatlegislation transformed Sen. Williams wasinvolved the indrafting thePaterson of publisher “Virtually everyaspectofthesellingpro-“Virtually All coursesintheprofessional salespro- The DepartmentofProfessional Salesin The degree willprepare studentsfor The Universityhasbecomethefirsthigher Morning Call Morning . UNIVERSITY degree in professional sales offers the broad-based curriculum and the practical skills needed to meet the challenges of the fast-changing business world. Customers increasingly want salespeople who are pro- IN MEMORIAM fessionals, who understand their businesses, It is with great sadness that we mourn who can solve problems, and offer excellent the passing of three members of the University community. REPORT customer service.” A new bachelor’s degree in Asian studies, Claudette Barry, associate professor of State College to William Paterson Col- with courses taught by faculty from a wide nursing, died in June 2005. A specialist lege. Olsen was instrumental in intro- array of departments and programs, in home health care nursing, Barry ducing a culture of shared governance enhances the internationalization of the Uni- joined the University in 1983. Previous- and the importance of celebrating versity’s curriculum. The multidisciplinary ly, she served as an assistant professor of diversity. A professor of political science program, housed in the College of Humani- nursing at Seton Hall University, a pub- from 1949 to 1967 at Kent State Uni- ties and Social Sciences, is built on the lic health nurse in Essex and Hudson versity in Ohio, he served as dean of strength of the University’s diverse faculty. counties, and in the health departments arts and sciences at Illinois State Uni- Asian studies faculty, including many who in New York City and Washington, D.C. versity prior to assuming the presidency are Fulbright scholars, are based in depart- The author of numerous journal articles at William Paterson. In 1973, he became ments such as art, anthropology, communi- on home health care nursing, Barry was director of the Zanesville campus of cation, economics, geography, history, a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the inter- Ohio University, a position he held languages and cultures, philosophy, political national nursing honor society. She until his retirement in 1977. science, sociology, and women’s studies. earned a registered nursing degree from They provide expertise and research covering the Lenox Hill Hospital School of Nurs- Ronald Parris, professor of African, most of Asia, including India, Pakistan, ing, a master’s degree in nursing from African American, and Caribbean China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. the Yale University School of Nursing, studies, died in October 2004. Parris, “This program is the way of the future,” and a doctorate in educational adminis- who joined the faculty as professor says Isabel Tirado, dean of the College of tration from Seton Hall University. and chair of the department in 1989, Humanities and Social Sciences. “Much of previously served as the Covington the world’s population lives in Asia, and Distinguished Professor at Davidson because United States trade with Asia is College in North Carolina, a program nearly twice that with Europe, our economy officer for the UNESCO Sector of has become very interconnected with coun- Human and Social Sciences, Paris, tries including Japan, China, and India.” France, and dean of the School of The program is designed to prepare stu- Arts and Sciences at Virginia Union dents for careers in teaching, government, University in Richmond, Virginia. A international business, non-governmental specialist in issues of sustainable devel- agencies and organizations, journalism, opment and the environment in the communications, and for advanced study. Caribbean, he served as president from The thirty-credit bachelor’s degree curriculum 1998 to 2000 of the International Sci- integrates the study of language with Asian entific Council for Island Development history, culture, economics, and politics. Stu- JAMES KARGE OLSEN (INSULA), an international non-gov- dents may choose from east Asian or south James Karge Olsen, who served as ernmental organization concerned with Asian track courses, and language courses PAGE president of William Paterson from 1968 issues of sustainable development and W7 include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi. to 1972, died in March 2005 at age 83. the environment based at UNESCO in SEVEN John Martone Named Olsen was the first William Paterson Paris. The author of numerous publi- Vice President for president whose background was not in cations, Parris earned a bachelor’s Student Development teacher education. He presided over the degree in sociology and anthropology John Martone, who institution’s state-mandated transforma- from the University of Rochester, a joined the University tion in mission and curriculum from a master’s degree in sociology from the three years ago as focus solely on teacher education to that University of California, Santa Barbara, associate vice presi- of a multipurpose liberal arts college, as and a doctoral degree in sociology dent and dean of well as the name change from Paterson from Yale University. student development, has been appointed vice president for JOHN MARTONE student develop- ment. In addition to continuing to oversee continued on page 42

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 PLACES TO GO THINGS TO DO ONCAMPUS PEOPLE TO SEE

THE ROJAS FAMILY OF HONDURAS MIKE SEBETICH, RICHARD PARDI, AND A STUDENT DAVID SHAPIRO LECTURES ON ART TAKE WATER SAMPLES

Art Professor cheeks, just like I did as a happy families, as well as Palana is continuing to add Launches Global child,” says Palana. “She also Aura’s newly built house. information about new pro- Fund-Raising Projects wants to be a first grade teacher Palana says she is grateful jects to her Web site, including Through the Web when she grows up.” for the overwhelming support plans to raise funds for a water Multimedia artist Kristen After learning that Aura’s she received from the Univer- well for a village in India and Palana has always had an inter- father, a farmer, makes only sity community, particularly for school uniforms and sup- est in volunteer work. She has $74 a month, and that Aura, her students. “Some worked plies for children in Zambia. traveled to India to help under- her mother, and five siblings on the Web site, while others She also will be teaching a privileged families, and, most were living in a two-room, made posters and postcards course on campus in summer recently, spent three weeks this mud-walled house, Palana and even donated their change 2006 for the University’s new past summer teaching at the decided to combine her talents into a jar,” she says. civic engagement initiative, Maua Hills Vocational Training in Web design, electronic pub- Inspired by Palana’s grass- which will involve students in Centre in Tanzania, where she lishing, and animation with her roots method of raising sup- creating a Web site for a local helped set up an art, music, and desire to make a difference. In port for Aura’s house, Children nonprofit organization. “While computer program to enable the June 2004, with assistance from International launched its Spon- it’s true that we can’t always PAGE students and faculty and input sor Thon feature on its own help everyone in the world, it W8 locals to learn marketable skills. EIGHT Two years ago, Palana, an from Children International, Web site. Sponsors interested is true that everyone can help assistant professor of art at she launched the Web site, in spreading the word about someone,” she says. William Paterson, decided to www.aurashouse.com, to raise sponsorship can sign up and sponsor a child through Chil- the $4,500 needed for a new create their own personal cam- dren International, a nonprofit home for Aura and her family. paign to help a child in need. Faculty Receive organization dedicated to To date, the site has raised Fulbright Awards improving the lives of children more than $11,000: $5,700 for Theodore F. Cook, a professor living in dire poverty. She Aura and her family, and of history and an expert on looked at countless photos of $5,500 for a second project for Japan and World War II, and children from poverty-stricken the Rojas family of Honduras, Stephen Newton, an assistant countries like Chile and Colom- who were living in a one-room professor of English and direc- bia until she found eleven- shack. Visitors to the Web site tor of the Writing Center, have year-old Aura Hernandez of are able to read about both been named Fulbright scholars. Guatemala. “Aura likes to draw projects, make online dona- Cook, who received a senior and paint, and has chubby tions, and see photos of both THE HERNANDEZ FAMILY’S CURRENT HOME research award, will conduct research during 2006 in Aus- University Awarded Participants were tralia at the invitation of the $400,000 Grant to told some aspects of University of New South Study Pollution of what the job Wales in Canberra and the Local Brook entailed. They were

Australian Defense Force then asked to rate CAMPUS The New Jersey Department Academy. His research will the job candidate ON of Environmental Protection focus on how Japan and the on job-related com- has awarded the University Japanese were assessed and petence, standards $408,586 to develop a plan to viewed by Australians during for hiring (e.g., how reduce pollution in nearby World War II and in its after- often would the Preakness Brook in Wayne. math. In particular, Cook will potential employee need to be Richard Pardi, a William examine materials held by around to be hired, what kind Paterson professor of environ- institutions such as the Aus- of standardized test scores or mental science, and Michael ELIZABETH HAINES tralian War Memorial, which GPA the candidate would Sebetich, a professor of biolo- contains, among other docu- need in order to be hired), and gy, will direct the eighteen- Psychology Professor ments, unique records of likelihood for hiring and pro- month project, which will Asks: Are Mothers and Japanese efforts at reeducation motion. Some participants focus on reducing stormwater Fathers Treated and reorientation in post-war were asked to make judgments runoff, which can carry fertil- Differently in the POW camps in the Southwest about the “ideal worker” to use izers, pet waste, motor oil, and Workplace? Pacific. He also plans to inter- as a baseline. litter into the brook, severely Women worried about hitting view Australian veterans about “In general, parents were impacting water quality. the “glass ceiling” as they try their war experiences. A spe- judged as less committed to The 8.9-mile-long Preak- to climb the ladder to leader- cialist in how World War II was their jobs and less available at ness Brook begins on High ship positions in the workplace experienced by the Japanese, work compared to those with- Mountain in High Mountain may face an additional barrier Cook is the co-author of Japan out children,” Haines explains. Preserve, winds through the if they are mothers: the mater- at War: An Oral History and “Surprisingly, participants set University campus, and even- nal wall. numerous articles. This is his lower employment standards tually meets up with the Pas- Elizabeth Haines, an assis- second Fulbright award. for fathers than they did for saic River. One of the cleanest tant professor of psychology at Newton is the recipient of a men with no children and for streams in northeastern New William Paterson, along with Fulbright grant, and is lectur- mothers. Fathers required Jersey at its headwaters, the three other researchers, con- ing in the American Studies lower ability scores in order to brook is significantly polluted ducted a study that indicates Department at the University be seen as hirable and were at its juncture with the that women who are mothers of Graz in Austria through seen as needing to have less Passaic River. are less likely to be hired and January 2006. While there, he presence in the office than “This is a particularly promoted than childless work- is teaching three courses— single men and the mothers. interesting project because the ers. The study, Mothers and The Literature of the Beat The female parent was less brook is in a suburban/urban Fathers in the Workplace: How Generation, Films and Litera- likely to be hired or promoted setting, and because the water Gender and Parental Status ture, and Twentieth Century when she was a parent than a quality of the stream changes Influence Judgments of Job- American Popular Fiction— non-parent.” so dramatically from its point Related Competence, was pub- and continuing work on a Haines says she was sur- of origin to its end,” says Pardi. lished in a recent issue of The range of writing projects. prised by how leniently the The project will include Journal of Social Issues. Newton is the co-editor of fathers were treated. “Many water quality sampling at vari- In the study, which used Rediscovering New York: Our- people view a father as needing PAGE ous locations along the brook William Paterson undergradu- W9 selves and Our Environment; his the job more because he has a to determine sources of the ates as one group of partici- NINE work has appeared in numer- stay-at-home wife and must pollution, development of rec- pants, students were asked to ous literary magazines and work; whereas, a lot of people ommendations for managing evaluate a candidate applying academic journals. view the mother, assuming stormwater runoff along the for a job as an entry-level The Fulbright program is she’s heterosexual and married, waterway, and creation of immigration law attorney. All the U.S. government’s flagship as having a spouse who is the educational and informational participants reviewed the same international exchange pro- primary wage earner. And materials for the local commu- resumé, but with a few key gram for scholars. William that’s a stereotype because nity. A number of University differences. Two candidates, Paterson’s faculty has received that’s not the case for a lot of students are expected to par- one man and one woman, were thirty-one Fulbright awards. people applying for jobs,” she ticipate in the project. identified as single and child- less. Two other candidates, says. “We think of stereotypes again one man and one as only being negative and woman, were each identified as damaging to people. But at the married with two children. continued on page 11

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 C L A S S N O T E S Learning About Art in Its Own Milieu Art in New York, Professor David Shapiro or Israeli artist Tsibi Geva to speak to my classes, and often in their studios,” Shapiro says. “What is a subtler, yet more direct way to learn? We have heard so many artists over the years. More than one hundred have devoted themselves, usually gratis, to our classes.“ Infinitely curious, Shapiro wants to share his interest and knowledge of art with the lucky students who sign up for his Saturday morning class. “Art is a vast array of experi- ences,” he says. “It is specific, like love. It is also so complex that we will fight about the family of DAVID SHAPIRO LECTURES ON ART IN POET’S HOUSE IN SOHO arts forever. It includes us, but Saturday mornings take an artistic In one lesson, held at Poet’s design, says this class was “an also history, materiality, and the bent during the spring and fall House on Spring Street in SoHo, awesome experience. Mostly in addressee. The adventure is filled semesters for the group of students Shapiro had his twenty students school students get used to seeing with experiences that we may who enroll in Professor David look at a painting with the assign- the Old Masters, not art that is never decode, or always argue Shapiro’s Art in New York class. ment of writing a poem about it. very contemporary. We went to about. When students think they He has taught the art class The work, by Elise Asher, depicted a lot of different galleries,” she have learned nothing, they are for more than twenty-five years birds, villages, and a lonely boat says. “We met the artists who often changing their lives imper- in much the same way. Although with a ghost inside. created the works we were see- ceptibly, like an apple on a tree. the art he exposes the students “Some students rhyme their ing. Looking at art in a book is Then we all fall…upwards.” to changes, the manner in which poems, even after I say they don’t limiting—to see the size and Students appreciate the uncon- they view it is the same—all art have to,” Shapiro says. “Some texture of a piece makes it more ventional approach to learning is viewed in its own milieu. All write full-length stories. Then each of an experience.” about art. “My favorite moment fifteen weeks of the semester are student recites and each responds. Another student, Nancy V. of the class was when we were held in museums such as the We are then able to see how Wicks, was also drawn to the all supposed to meet at the Met,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, the criticism can be creative. In other galleries the class visited. “The Wicks remembers. “After we Guggenheim Museum, and the museums, students stand in front idea of going to visit small gal- gathered the class together, Dr. PAGE Frick Collection. He guides the of a masterpiece and do what I leries in the city appealed to me,” Shapiro decided to skip the Met W10 students to art in studios, gal- call ‘communal seeing,’ a phrase she says. “Dr. Shapiro really made and walk to see the Gates (a TEN leries, and museums all over the from my own mentor Meyer it all worthwhile. He was the type temporary installation by the city in a never-ending quest to Shapiro, who taught at Columbia. of person that was great just to artists Christo and his wife Jeanne- bring the students to the art They critique each other’s cri- listen to. To walk with him along Claude, in Central Park last instead of bringing the art to the tique. Gradually, we build up to a the streets of Manhattan and February), which was a once-in- students. class that hardly wants to leave enter random galleries was a a-lifetime opportunity. The Gates “I wanted to get the students by the two-hour mark. We take large eye-opener and such an were only displayed for a few away from the torpor of the slide no prisoners, have no lunches or educational experience.” weeks, so he thought it was only show,” he says. “I am particularly interruptions. And I always tell Multitalented, Shapiro is an appropriate. To walk through the concerned with the idea that art them to continue in the galleries. art historian, poet, the author of Gates in Central Park with Dr. must be touched, seen in the real Often students are with me until thirty books, and a musician in Shapiro on that Saturday afternoon environment, not hinted at in the 5:00 p.m. from 10:00 a.m. or so addition to being a professor, and was so nice that I will remember rumor of a slide. It is a class in in the morning.” this is his favorite class. it for the rest of my life. To be so urban space and a class in museol- One student, Milmari Ramirez, “I am able to bring true artists spur of the moment and so free ogy. a senior majoring in graphic like Connie Buckley, Lucio Pozzi, was exciting and memorable.” Haines Philosophy Professor College of continued from page 9 Writes Book Education About Childhood Professor same time that some stereo- Conducts types are damaging and keep Marie-Louise Friquegnon, a Research at CAMPUS people back, other stereotypes professor of philosophy, exam- Oxford ON move people forward in the ines the needs of children and context of privilege, or who is applies a philosophical perspec- Melda N. Yildiz, more deserving.” tive to their rights in her new assistant professor How can we prevent social book, Reflections on Childhood: of secondary and factors and stereotypes from A Philosophical and Psychologi- middle school edu- influencing these on-the-job cal Study of the Nature, Rights, cation, was a visiting research judgments in the future? and Needs of Children. scholar at the Summer Institute Haines says the first step is to WYNTON MARSALIS She starts by posing a at Harris Manchester College, question for parents: “What are Oxford University, for a week show that these stereotypes Lift Your Soul,” which will the grounds of responsibilities last July. Yildiz, whose research exist, followed by education focus on his music and on jazz toward children over and above focuses on media education, about the fact that not all fami- as a unique American art form. the obvious ties of family life?” studied “the integration of new ly organizations are traditional. “This is truly an exciting She also discusses childhood as media and technologies into “The data also can be used to opportunity to hear one of a developmental process which media literacy curriculum from help prosecute sex discrimina- today’s jazz masters perform is “marked by the acquisition a British point of view.” tion cases. Once companies and discuss his music,” says of certain rights and assump- According to Yildiz, media take responsibility for these David Demsey, professor of tions of new responsibilities.” education is necessary because actions, then they will make music and coordinator of Based on this tenet, she it promotes critical autonomy, more of an effort to try to William Paterson’s Jazz Studies believes that “childhood is a democracy, and health, and change the way their human Program, who was a classmate rehearsal for a life of adult develops a global point of resource departments operate of Marsalis’s at The Juilliard responsibilities…with more view. “Kindergarten to grade and educate managers about School in the late 1970s. and more expected from the twelve teachers need to inte- bias,” she adds. The artistic director of the performers as opening night grate media literacy and media prestigious Jazz at Lincoln (adulthood) nears.” Problems production skills throughout Center program, Marsalis is ensue, she writes, because the curriculum to enhance also a distinguished classical people reach adulthood at dif- learning,” she explains. Jazz Icon Wynton music performer. He has won ferent ages. In adolescents, the Yildiz was recommended for Marsalis Slated for Jazz nine Grammy awards and is parts of the brain that govern the fellowship by a University Room Concert and the first jazz musician to be behavior are often underdevel- committee of faculty, and was Distinguished Lecturer honored with the Pulitzer oped, leading to differences only the second member of the Series Appearance Prize for music. He has pro- in maturity. William Paterson faculty select- Wynton Marsalis, the jazz duced thirty-three jazz and Friquegnon says she wrote ed to attend the institute. w trumpeter, bandleader, and eleven classical records and has the book primarily because of composer who is one of the sold more than seven million concerns about “theories that world’s most recognized jazz records worldwide, including failed to understand the value artists, will be on campus on three certified gold records. In of giving children both protec- Sunday, March 19, 2006, for a 2001, United Nations Secre- tion and freedom, and the special dual appearance as part tary General Kofi Annan pro- PAGE practice of treating children as W11 of the University’s nationally claimed him an international adults in criminal courts.” ELEVEN renowned Jazz Room Series as ambassador of goodwill and She sent copies of the well as the twenty-sixth season appointed him a United book to Supreme Court of its acclaimed Distinguished Nations messenger of peace. judges before they ruled Lecturer Series. Marsalis is also a dedicated against executing juve- Marsalis and his Sextet will jazz educator. He meets with niles. “Perhaps my book perform at 3:00 p.m. in Shea students wherever he is, regu- had some influence on Center in the final concert of larly conducting master classes their decision,” she says. the spring 2006 Jazz Room in schools. Series. Later that evening, at Separate tickets are 7:30 p.m., Marsalis will return required for each event. For to Shea Center for his Distin- information on either event, guished Lecturer Series call the Shea Center Box Office address, titled “Letting Jazz at 973.720.2371.

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 The Beacon: Shining a Light on The Campus for Nearly Seventy Years —By Terry E. Ross ’80

ITWASNOVEMBER 2, 1936—NEARLY A DECADE BEFORE TELEVISION,

THE DAY BEFORE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT WAS RE-ELECTED TO A

SECOND TERM, AND WHEN AMERICA WAS CLIMBING UP FROM

THE MIDST OF THE DEPRESSION. IT WAS THE DAY A STUDENT

NEWSPAPER CALLED THE BEACON WAS BORN AT PATERSON

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

There were no earth- the newspaper’s growth and change. “We shattering headlines or bold did not anticipate solving problems or announcements in the first setting the world straight when we started. issue. Just upbeat news We just wanted a college newspaper for the about the success of the fun of it and to tell what was happening,” Halloween dance, field trips he commented years later. In 1986, several planned, and a plea for a former Beacon editors banded together to new school photograph. publish a special fiftieth anniversary issue Front-page headlines and included an interview with Houston, announced that the now 95 and a resident of Newton, New library added two hun- Jersey. “It amazes me how the Beacon has dred new books and explained why certain grown and what a tremendous thing it has PAGE W12 courses were popular. become,” he told them. TWELVE But what began as a seemingly innocu- Glancing through past issues of the ames Houston, an enterprising twenty- ous monthly also signaled the start of Beacon, whether yellowed originals or Jfive-year-old freshman with some something important. “New ventures are those preserved on CD, is like taking a experience in printing, recognized the need both fascinating and thrilling,” wrote Robert virtual ride through time. Editors dutifully for a paper. He was one of four hundred H. Morrison, the principal, in a letter chronicled the institution’s growth from its students attending the college located at published in the first issue. “Publishing a quarters in the upper floors of an elemen- School No. 24 in Paterson, New Jersey. It student newspaper is one of the finest tary school in the Silk City to the 370-acre was a young institution with a big future ventures that you can have. You can make sprawling campus in Wayne. They wrote and news to share. Houston published the the traditions that will guide and direct about each new president, each new student four-page tabloid under the flag The the publishers of the student newspaper leader, and each new academic program. Paterson State Beacon, and became its first for years to come.” The Beacon tradition Enrollment soared and along with it, so editor-in-chief. “I think I called it the had begun. did the hopes and dreams for the institu- Beacon because I tend to like lighthouses,” Houston returned to the campus to tion. Years rolled by. Building after building he later reflected. teach from 1952 to 1981, and witnessed was erected; and years later, many received facelifts. As the college grew, so did the Beacon. It went from a meager tabloid with a $139-a-year budget to a computer-for- matted newspaper independently financed by $30,000 worth of advertising. From sock hops to student protests, from the Kennedy assassination to September 11, and from a teacher’s college to a compre- hensive regional university, the Beacon covered every milestone. Those who held the job of editor-in- chief of the Beacon say it was one of the most memorable, life-altering events of their lives. It doesn’t matter if it was last year or four decades ago. They still remember the grueling schedule, relentless hours, staff shortages, and pulling “all nighters” to meet the final deadline. From the days of tediously working on a hunt- and-peck manual typewriter to today’s state-of-the-art computers, most Beacon editors put in fifty to seventy hours a week working on the paper. John Byrne ’75, Beacon editor from 1973 to 1975, says he didn’t sleep on Thursday nights. “I stayed up at the Beacon office with my team of people, working through the night into the next day. I’d go to classes, would inevitably go out on a date on Friday HERB JACKSON, THE LATE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION (STANDING, CENTER) ON PRESS DAY 1985 WITH FORMER BEACON STAFFERS (STANDING L.TO R.) STEWART WOLPIN ‘78, MICHAEL REARDON ‘78, JOHN BYRNE ‘75, HEIDE ALEXANDER ‘83, (SEATED, L. TO R.) night, and would finally get to bed at 1:00 COLIN UNGARO ‘75, SUSAN KELLIHER UNGARO ‘75, AND BARRY M. RUBENSTEIN ‘82 a.m. Saturday morning. That was my schedule for two years.” Byrne, an author couch, eating chicken pot pies out of the reported on the historic tragedy. Working and journalist, is now executive editor of little toaster oven. I guess my enthusiasm at the Beacon was an experience that BusinessWeek magazine. was infectious because everybody else on forged lasting relationships, marriages, “It was not unusual for us to be up all the paper pitched in and we got it all done. lifelong friendships, and put many on the night long for days in a row working on I don’t know what it’s like now, but it sure path to remarkable careers. the paper— it was just crazy,” remembers was a lot of fun.” Joining the Beacon could be intimidating. Joseph Farah, a Beacon editor known for One of the most rewarding benefits of Lisovicz still remembers how nervous she putting out massive, forty-page issues in the Beacon experience has been the cama- was the first time she walked into the 1977. Farah is the founder, editor, and raderie shared among the staffers. “We were Beacon’s office in the Student Center chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily all very close and good friends. We had to building. Once in, she says, “the Beacon News and a nationally syndicated radio be because we worked closely with each helped me hone my skills as a fledgling talk-show host. other late into the nights on production,” reporter and gave me the confidence to PAGE W13 says Mike Palumbo ’87, now an attorney. stick with journalism.” THIRTEEN The newspaper office generated many Student editors learned on the job, romances, like that of Emma Trifiletti ’64 gaining confidence, raising questions, and Michael J. Burns ’64, who took turns investigating, sometimes instigating, and serving as editor and later married. It’s also flexing their editorial muscle. The Beacon’s For more on the history of the Beacon, the bond that brought together friends, like editors also learned how to budget their including photos, remembrances, and past issues, please visit the University’s Web site at Judy Smagula Farah ’77, editor for KFCK time and juggle responsibilities. And www.wpunj.edu/alumni/beacon radio in Sacramento, California, and Susan because they also squeezed in time for Lisovicz ’78, anchor and correspondent for homework, part-time jobs, and a social Scott Sailor ’86, owner of Bruised Apple CNN Business News. When the terrorist life, they admit to making their share of Books in Peekskill, New York, says he attacks occurred on September 11, 2001, mistakes. Typos, grammatical mistakes, and pretty much lived in the newspaper office Farah was on vacation and visiting Lisovicz blurred photographs were not uncommon. when he was editor. “I was there about in Hoboken. The two women journalists, More than one editor remembers walking seventy hours a week, sleeping on the once Beacon staffers together, went out and into class after the day of publication, head

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 hung low, hoping no one would notice his the State of New Jersey, Paterson State or her mistakes. Through it all, most Teachers College, the Administration of the took the job of being a journalist very College, or the Student Government seriously, voicing student concerns, Association.” The underlying spirit of the and pushing for a better campus. Beacon, it said, was “Malice toward none; In its earliest years, the Beacon with charity toward all.” informed the campus about school As the Bob Dylan song predicted, dances, exam schedules and teachers “The times, they are a-changin,” and in conferences. It could also be an outspo- the 1960s so did the Beacon. In 1961, after ken participant, admonishing students the death of Greenaway, Fred Closs when they lacked school spirit and cheer- became the newspaper’s faculty advisor. ing them on to support social events and “He was very supportive of our opin- attend ball games. In 1939, a typical con- ions, our rights, and what we felt was troversy involved the overcrowding and going on,” remembers Emma Trifiletti misuse of the “social room” which was Burns, editor in 1962. When students closed and later reopened on the condition staged their first protest in 1962—a of good behavior. “Try to remember that boycott of cafeteria food because of there are people below who are trying to poor quality and high prices—the work. Keep the radio turned down and the story was splashed in a bold headline ‘jitterbug stuff ’ turned off,” scolded the above the masthead. The Beacon was March 27, 1939 editorial. no longer under the thumb of The mood turned serious as World War administrators. “The editorial col- II gripped the nation. By 1943, nearly all very umn is the soul of ideas, and the mind of male students were called into service. The opinions. It is the voice of the student,” Beacon was mailed to every student-turned- A SECOND CAMPUS NEWSPAPER, THE PIONEER TIMES, WAS said the Beacon on October 12, 1962. soldier and a special section of the paper, FIRST PUBLISHED ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2000. Two years later, President Marion Shea called “Staters in Service,” was devoted to caused a major uproar by suspending news about servicemen. Excerpts from few cars at the time we felt fortunate when seven student leaders, including three offi- servicemen’s letters to Dr. Clair Wightman, someone could drive the dummy paste-ups cers of the Student Government Associa- president of the college, included poignant to the printer.” Audrey Betts ’53, Beacon tion, “for actions detrimental to the and heartrending reports from the front staffer from 1949 to 1951, remembers college.” Beacon co-editor Michael J. line. “Combat isn’t as bad as it’s supposed those days too. “We worked on the Beacon Burns ’64 and staffer Al Pecci interviewed to be—it’s plenty bad,” wrote Lt. George wherever we could—in the cafeteria, out in the president, but she offered no details Reilly, the twenty-two-year-old pilot of a the park across the street, or at home,” she on the suspensions. Local newspapers got B-17 Flying Fortress. “Every time I start a says. wind of the story, and President Shea was bomb run I say my prayers. Flack looks The Beacon cheered for the expansion of forced to issue a statement discounting harmless, just puffs of smoke, but at the the college, and supported Dr. Wightman in rumors that the school newspaper was target the sky is black and when you can see his plea for a new campus and buildings. being censored. Burns, who went on to flame in the bursts, it’s too close. I’ve had After delays, disappointments, and uncer- become a CEO of several major corpora- flack holes in my plane on every mission so tainties, the Beacon’s headline on November tions, still recalls the day the New York far.” In the following edition of the paper, 30, 1951 proclaimed “College Campus Times called his house. “My mother was a Reilly was reported missing in action; he Dream Comes True for State; Students nervous wreck because she thought I was PAGE died in combat in November 1944. going to get suspended too, but I told her W14 Pass Through Gates for the First Time.” FOURTEEN After the war, the college was flooded “It was a happy time to be growing up. The not to worry.” The Beacon carried stories with men who took advantage of the G.I. war was over. And many of us were the and editorials on the incident, including Bill of Rights. Not all of them wanted to first person in our families to go to college,” photographs of students conducting a become teachers. Many enrolled with the remembers Betts, who worked as assistant peaceful march in protest. Two weeks after intention of fulfilling two years of liberal director of financial aid at William Paterson their suspension, the students were rein- arts requirements before transferring to before retiring in 1990. stated. Today, Mike and Emma Burns live another college. Paterson State was out- Throughout the 1950s, the editors of in Bellevue, Washington. Mike is the presi- growing its space in School No. 24 and so the Beacon never dared to make waves. dent and CEO of Pioneer Human Ser- had the Beacon. The editorial policy, which bore the initials vices, a Seattle-based non-profit “It was difficult (being the editor) of Emily Greenaway, the newspaper’s long- organization; Emma works as an adminis- because our office was the closet in the time faculty advisor, was spelled out in the trative assistant at First Presbyterian library,” recalls Mary Lobosco Zanfino ’49, March 5, 1956 issue. It said, “The Beacon Church of Bellevue and is the author of who served as Beacon editor from 1946 to does not print anything that would discredit numerous Christian devotionals. 1947. “We had one typewriter. And with the Government of the United States, In 1969, the paper endorsed a Morato- rium Day boycott of classes to protest the Herbert G. Jackson there shrinking in my seat. And he’d Vietnam War. “It was a chaotic time of say, ‘Mike, don’t get discouraged, keep student unrest,” recalls Beacon editor Mary Fondly Remembered: going at it.’ Ann Ross Cooper ’70, now executive editor A Journalist, Teacher, “Jackson always made himself of Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education available,” says Palumbo. “Late-night and a syndicated columnist. “I could look Mentor, and Friend out the newspaper office’s Coach House production sessions for the paper balcony window any time of day and stu- were on Sunday night, and he would dents would be protesting, yelling, and say, ‘If you need help, you can wake parading with signs for all kinds of reasons. me up in the middle of the night. Just The wonderful thing is that the racks for call me.’ I remember calling Herb late the Beacon were always empty. Everybody into the evening on Sunday, and wanted to know what was going on.” asking, ‘What do you think about this At a time when the rallying cry was for or that,’ and he’d spend hours on the free speech and student power, the Beacon was sometimes criticized for going too far. phone with me.” Today, Palumbo is an “I think I was the first editor who published attorney with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene a four-letter word in the newspaper,” says & MacRae, a New York City law firm. Joe Di Giacomo, editor from 1970 to 1972. Byrne, now executive editor of “I remember hearing about it not only from BusinessWeek magazine, remained the administration but from my father when lifelong friends with Jackson and I got home. It was a quote from the SGA delivered the eulogy at his funeral. president at the time, and I felt strongly “Jackson was like a father figure that it had to be there because that was how HERBERT G. JACKSON he spoke.” Di Giacomo is now administrator because he was my first professional for the Borough of Tenafly, New Jersey. erbert G. Jackson had a major role model. He was a mentor, an Herbert G. Jackson, a newspaper Hinfluence on every student he advisor, a friend, and a role model for journalist, was hired as assistant professor taught in class and guided as a me to emulate.” of communication in 1973 to expand the faculty advisor to the Beacon from “He was a real inspiration,” recalls department and add new journalism classes. 1973 to 1990. Joseph Farah ‘77, a syndicated writer Beacon editor John Byrne, a student in his Former students describe him as an and talk show host. “I remember taking first journalism class, asked him to be the “old school” newspaperman, “slightly my first class with him and thinking paper’s faculty advisor. Under Jackson’s guidance, the newspaper became a serious gruff,” with a good sense of humor. that maybe I’ll do something in jour- training ground for aspiring journalists At heart, he was a teddy bear. nalism. Before that class was even over and the investigative age of journalism had Jackson was an award-winning I decided that this was it. This was dawned. The Beacon didn’t hesitate to journalist who spent nearly twenty-five what I was going to do for the rest denounce a teacher’s strike, demand the years as a newspaper editor before he of my life.” resignation of a dean, or blast administrators was hired in 1973 to build a journalism Susan Kelliher Ungaro ‘75, former for a lapse of campus security. Former curriculum at William Paterson. He Beacon staffer and journalist, agrees. Beacon staffer Susan Kelliher Ungaro ’75 served as an assistant professor of “Herb had a wonderful, passionate remembers writing an explosive exposé on the wage gap between male and female communication until his death in 1990. crusty attitude that really made you PAGE “He was like a character out of the feel that this is practically God’s work.” W15 faculty on campus. “These were the FIFTEEN Woodward and Bernstein days,” says movie The Front Page,” says former “Jackson guided us well,” adds Ungaro, who went on to build a thirty-year Beacon editor John Byrne ’75. “He loved Colin Ungaro ‘75, a division president career at Family Circle magazine. “The telling stories about his newspaper days with Reed Business Information, who Beacon taught me the basics of good at the Times-Union in Rochester.” marvels at how many Beacon staffers journalism.” Beacon staffers will never forget pursued careers in journalism. Many The Beacon grew more confident in the their weekly critique sessions with rose to high positions, writing books, years that followed. Beacon editors Joseph Farah and Colin Ungaro scored a stunning Jackson, when he would bring in a copy becoming editors of major magazines, investigative coup when they looked into of the paper all marked up with red and presidents of publishing compa- the actions of William Paterson President edits. “It was scary because he would nies. The reason, says Ungaro, is William McKeefery. On November 18, rip apart your work. But it was great “directly tied to both Herb Jackson 1975, in a one-page cover story, they because you learned,” remembers and the influence that The Beacon attorney Mike Palumbo ‘87. “I would sit had on all of us.” continued on page 43

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 WP Has A “Sit-Down” With Joe Pistone/ Donnie Brasco

—By Christine S. Diehl

SETTING UP AN INTERVIEW WITH FORMER SPECIAL AGENT JOSEPH D. Seated in a high-backed chair and drinking iced tea in the lounge of a well- PISTONE ’65, A.K.A. DONNIE BRASCO, IS A COVERT OPERATION. YOU MAY known New York City hotel, Pistone—now in his sixties—wears a black shirt and khaki HAVE TO PASS A BACKGROUND CHECK BEFORE HE’LL MEET YOU. HE LIVES IN pants and is without the trademark sun- glasses he dons for television appearances. AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION AND HIS PHONE NUMBER AND E-MAIL ADDRESS With one eye on the door, he talks candidly about his undercover life in the Mafia and ARE CLOSELY GUARDED SECRETS. HE TRAVELS UNDER ASSUMED NAMES, SO his subsequent career as an author and television/film producer and consultant. YOU CAN’T ASK FOR HIM AT THE DESK IN A HOTEL LOBBY. INSTEAD, YOU’RE WP: You spent your childhood in North Jersey? INSTRUCTED TO WAIT FOR HIM TO CALL YOU ON A CELL PHONE SO YOU Pistone: Yes. I was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in the Sandy Hill section of CAN MEET. WANT TO TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH? FUHGEDABOUDIT. Paterson. I have a brother, Dominick, who

PAGE also attended William Paterson, and a sister W16 hen again, Pistone—the only FBI agent blow—leading to more than one hundred named Geraldine—she goes by Geri. SIXTEEN Tever proposed for membership in the federal convictions—and continues to have WP: Any recollections about your time Mafia—has good reason to be cautious. For repercussions for organized crime today, at William Paterson? nearly twenty-five years, this William as demonstrated by the recent trial of Pistone: My wife, Maggie, worked as a Paterson alumnus has lived with a $500,000 Bonanno crime boss Joey Massino, who in nurse in a doctor’s office while I went to Mafia contract on his head, ever since it was June 2005 was sentenced to life in prison school. I switched between day and night revealed that the man his associates in New for eight Mob murders, including that of classes, depending on my work schedule. York’s Bonanno crime family knew as jewel Pistone/Brasco’s Mafia captain, Dominick I played basketball at William Paterson… thief and burglar Donnie Brasco was in fact “Sonny Black” Napolitano. Officially I also remember that the school had some an undercover federal agent. retired from the FBI since 1996, Pistone’s great professors. From 1975 to 1981, Pistone spent seven remarkable story is captured in his New WP: You graduated in 1965 with a days a week immersed in an underworld York Times best-selling book, Donnie degree in elementary education/social of corruption, crime, and murder. The evi- Brasco, and is the basis of the 1997 feature studies. Did you consider teaching? dence he gathered during his unprecedented film starring Johnny Depp as Donnie Mafia infiltration dealt them a damaging Brasco and Al Pacino as Lefty Ruggiero. Pistone: While I was a senior at WP: Why a jewel thief as your under- and I want to do business with you.” But William Paterson, I took the police exam cover occupation? I was in the right places and seeing the and passed it, but I wanted to finish college. Pistone: I chose a jewel thief because right people in the restaurants and bars in When I graduated, I got a job as a teacher you need a legend [a back story] that’s New York. Finally after about nine months, at Paterson School No. 10. I enjoyed non-violent. As an undercover FBI agent, I got into a conversation with one of the teaching, but I really wanted to get into you can’t be saying you’re going to break bartenders and…he introduced me to some law enforcement. So after a year, I entered someone’s legs or shoot someone. A jewel people. Eventually I started getting invited Naval Intelligence. thief is a profession where you can say you down to social clubs and restaurants in WP: How did you get into undercover operate alone, which is key. You can come Little Italy, and it just rolled from there. work? in with some jewelry and diamonds and WP: How did you memorize events so Pistone: I took the FBI exam and say, “I did a score last night,” using stuff well for later courtroom testimony? became a special agent in 1969. My first confiscated by U.S. Customs or whatever. Pistone: It was probably my training office was in Jacksonville, Florida. At that WP: Did you know at the outset that at William Paterson. [Laughs.] I did very time I was doing basic criminal cases: bank the Donnie Brasco operation would last little taping and I never took notes, but what robberies, vice, prostitution. That’s when I six years? I had was the ability to separate what was started doing undercover work—nothing Pistone: When I took on that assign- important and what wasn’t. To me, what heavy—a week here, a couple days there. ment, it was supposed to be for six [a person was] wearing made no difference; From there I got transferred to Virginia… months…And after six months, I hadn’t I concentrated on the conversation. My and then New York, where I worked really done too much. You can’t just walk theory was I was only going to remember truck hijackings and started to do a lot of in and say, “Hi, I’m Donnie the Jeweler two things: [items] of evidentiary value for undercover work…I had an undercover assignment up and down the East Coast with a theft ring that stole high-end auto- mobiles, trucks, a couple airplanes. I was using the name Donald Brasco at that time. When I came off that assignment, I had a supervisor by the name of Guy Berada and we had this idea for an undercover operation that would infiltrate fences that were dealing with the Mafia in stolen goods. We went over the operation and he said, “you want to do it?” and I said, “yeah.” I was Italian and I knew the Mob from growing up in Paterson. WP: Was that how you were able to blend into the Mafia so successfully? PAGE W17 Pistone: It’s called having street smarts, SEVENTEEN and you only get that by growing up… with the streets as your environment. It’s hanging out in high school and knowing guys from the neighborhood who are not involved in anything legitimate. You find in law enforcement that you can’t teach street smarts—somebody either has it or they don’t. With the Mafia, you know when to talk and when not to talk, and when to get up and walk away. People observe this, and every little bit adds to your credibility.

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Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 use in court, and intelligence information WHEN YOU’RE UNDER- WP: You had a couple of close calls of vital importance. “ during the operation, for example, when a WP: You had to miss a lot of family COVER, YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE picture of the boat you had used to enter- occasions while your three daughters were TO VERBALIZE AND COMMUNI- tain some Mafia guys appeared in the news growing up. This must have been tough. as the federal boat used in ABSCAM [the Pistone: It was. Number one, in the CATE WITH PEOPLE. YOU HAVE 1978 sting operation in which FBI agents posed as associates of an Arab sheik and FBI when you work undercover, you’re TO GET YOUR POINT ACROSS volunteering, so your family knows you offered public officials bribes in exchange signed up for it. And for security purposes AND BE ABLE TO GET IN A for special favors]. There was also a meeting you’re prohibited from discussing the case where you were grilled for hours regarding with anyone from outside, even your wife. CONVERSATION WITH THEM your legitimacy and could have been “whacked.” How did you handle that? So that’s an added stress, the “Why aren’t AND DEAL WITH IT THAT WAY, you here?” “I’m working undercover.” Pistone: You can’t control everything. “Doing what?” “I can’t tell you.” BECAUSE VIOLENCE IS THE ABSCAM was not supposed to have surfaced; someone leaked it to the news. WP: When you did get home, was it LAST RESORT. hard to transition back to being a husband ” When it did hit…one of my guys saw the and dad? boat in, I think it was Time or Newsweek. But I always laid out a story a month or so Pistone: You’re only home for a day or Pistone: It’s a thing that really tugs at ahead of time…I had told a story that the two, so there’s not much of a transition. you. You’ve got this operation and it’s boat belonged to the brother of this girl I I’ll give you an example of how things go going great. You’re someplace no one else knew. So I was able to talk my way out of in undercover work—and I spent twenty has ever been as far as an undercover infil- that one…When you’re undercover, you out of twenty-seven years working under- tration, but your obligation is really to your have to be able to verbalize and communi- cover. The first time you come home, family and not to your job. And the longer cate with people. You have to get your point everybody’s there—you’ve been away for you’re away, the more [the Mafia guys are] across and be able to get in a conversation five months, they’re anxious to see you. suspicious. When you’re with the Mob, with them and deal with it that way, because Then four months go by and you come your life is controlled by whoever you’re violence is the last resort. home the second time and everybody’s responsible to—as far as where you’re at, there, but they’re antsy. And the third WP: The FBI pulled you out just months what you’re doing, how much money you’re time, they’re there but they’re out of there before you were to be inducted into the earning. So you’re dealing with the Mob guy an hour after you get home. And the Mafia. But doesn’t a “wiseguy” have to kill on where you’re at, and with your family fourth time, you’re lucky if anybody’s someone first? who can’t understand why you have to leave home at all—and the reason is, “hey, Pistone: Look, there’s no honor and doesn’t know what you’re doing. It’s you’re here for two days every four or five amongst thieves. They lie, they steal, they definitely a burden on them. months—everything’s running fine with- cheat, and they kill, and in their mind it’s out you.” WP: Your closest Mafia associates, all legitimate. And they lie for each other. PAGE Sonny [Napolitano] and Lefty [Ruggiero], WP: In the movie, your character Sonny and Lefty did lie and say I was pre- W18 were always keeping tabs on you. Was your sent at a hit and that’s how I was proposed EIGHTEEN [played by Johnny Depp] rearranged the value to them all about money? cabinets every time he came home, driving for membership. They had given me con- his wife crazy. Was that based on reality? Pistone: With the Mafia, it’s also about tracts to kill a couple people, but I didn’t respect and power. But let’s face it, the find the guys I was supposed to kill. Pistone: Yeah, I’m kind of a freak like whole idea of being a thief is to earn money that—it’s a very true piece of the movie. I WP: After spending seven days a week illegally. I had the ability, they thought, to like my clothes just right in my closet— with these guys, did you feel any remorse earn them money. I would bring around one shirt can’t touch the other on the about bringing them down? the precious gems. Plus, I had a skill that hangers. [Laughs] Pistone: It never bothered me knowing not many of them had, which was picking WP: There is a compelling chapter in guys were going to jail. My job was to locks, burglar alarms, safes. That’s a skill gather evidence to put them in jail. Now, I your book about the time your wife was in they needed and I had from my years in a terrible car accident in California, which knew at a certain point that guys were going Naval Intelligence and taking different to get killed. I didn’t want to see anybody illustrates the challenge you faced in meet- FBI courses. ing your family’s needs while maintaining get killed as long as they weren’t trying to your undercover role. kill me. I knew Sonny would get killed. I WP: You and your wife live under secret and sparred for an hour, and we came to knew [Tony] Mirra would probably get identities, yet you’re out doing book tours an agreement: I don’t talk about the Mob killed…I figured Lefty would get killed… and television appearances. How do you and he doesn’t talk about the FBI [in a he actually died of cancer—he was on his reconcile the two and how real is the threat derogatory manner]. So, we came up with way to get killed when the FBI arrested to your life? a storyline. I wrote the FBI chapters, Bill him and saved his life. When everything Pistone: In part it’s because I don’t like wrote the Mob chapters, and David put it went down, the FBI gave these guys a notoriety. My neighbors don’t know who all together. We’ve just signed a deal to sell chance to come over to our side and save I am. I’m not a rock star—I don’t need the rights to a movie company. themselves, and they refused. My way of people patting me on the back all time. If WP: Any other upcoming projects? thinking, and that’s what kept me alive, anything, my worry is about some guy who’s Pistone: I just got done producing a was look, I had nothing to do with you a cowboy and thinks, “If I do in Donnie movie called 10th and Wolf, which is about being a gangster. You were a gangster way Brasco, I’ll make a name for myself.” On the Mob wars in Philadelphia during the before I got here. I did nothing to entice the other hand, you’ve got to get out there. ’80s and ’90s. I’ve been writing a one-man you to commit crimes or murders. That’s We take precautions like not using the same show based on my book, The Way of the your life. You chose it; you live it. Some hotels, changing names on airlines, not Wise Guy (Running Press, 2004), which people think that’s callous, but I’m not a allowing photos at events, things like that. we’re negotiating to social worker. You either make another WP: Did Johnny Depp do open in Las Vegas…I’m choice or you take the consequences. a good job portraying you in working on another WP: Looking back, was it all worth it? the movie? non-fiction book with Pistone: You don’t become a law Pistone: He was the best… Running Press with the enforcement officer or an FBI agent to I spent a lot of time with working title, Donnie become rich. You do it because you feel like Johnny for about two months Brasco II: Unfinished you’re helping society. I really feel that before we started shooting and Business, which picks what we did in those six years—me and all every day on the set during the up where the first the others who worked on the case—was shooting…He picked up my book left off, including the beginning of the breaking of the Mafia’s mannerisms so well…My some of the more stronghold on the American public. mother came on the set one dynamic courtroom WP: Your work clearly had a huge day, and when she heard him testimony... I’m also impact. What’s your take on the present- talking, she thought it was me. doing a column for a new publication day Mafia? WP: You’ve also taken the called Justice Pistone: Today’s Mafia is not what it Donnie Brasco character into Magazine. was ten, twenty years ago. My estimation the world of fiction. WP: The Mafia is they’re operating at about fifty percent— Pistone: Yes. I’ve written certainly provides great fodder for the heavy into drugs, gambling, loan sharking, three “Donnie Brasco” novels [Deep Cover, entertainment industry. What do you think white-collar crime, credit cards, identity Mobbed Up, and Snake Eyes, Onyx Books, theft. But why their strength is less than of The Sopranos? PAGE 1999, 2000, 2001]. W19 ever is they don’t control the labor unions Pistone: Sopranos is great writing. Do WP: Your most recent novel, The Good NINETEEN like they once did. When they controlled they get a lot of stuff right? Yeah. Do they Guys (Warner Books, 2005), was co-written the labor unions, they controlled…inter- get a lot of stuff wrong? Yeah. But maybe with Bill Bonanno, son of the late Mafia state commerce. And by not controlling the the stuff they get wrong is on purpose. boss Joe Bonanno. How did that collabora- labor unions, they’ve lost their ability to What you have to remember is the reason tion originate? get politicians elected…or appoint judges. they’re doing this is so people will watch. They’re pretty much out of the gambling Pistone: A good friend of mine, David And a lot of times, the way things happen business in Vegas and Atlantic City in that Fischer, who is also an author, called me is not going to put people in the seats. they don’t control the money in the casinos and said, “What do you think about doing The public’s fascination with the Mafia is anymore…You’re never going to totally a book with Bill Bonanno?” Remember, nuts though, isn’t it? Bill was not involved in my case. His family break them because you’re always going to WP: But it’s good for you, right? have people who don’t want to work, who left New York in the 1960s; the Mafia just Pistone: Yeah. I hope it keeps up. w are just inbred to be gangsters and thieves. kept using the name. I had never met Bill nor had any illegal dealings that involved him. We had a “sit-down” in New York

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WORK ON THE FOUNDATION OF A HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOME IN VIRGINIA Socially Responsible, University Students Serve

PAGE W20 The Community TWENTY —By Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A. ’94

TUTORING, MENTORING, TEACHING HUMAN RIGHTS, BUILDING HOMES, hese students are part of a growing Tnational trend, as more and more RAISING MONEY FOR WORTHY CAUSES, AND OTHER SOCIALLY RESPON- colleges and universities across the nation make service learning—the practice of SIBLE ACTIVITIES ARE PART OF THE DAILY ROUTINE FOR MANY integrating service with academic study, voluntarism, and civic engagement—part WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AS THEY MAKE TIME TO of the curriculum. “Civic engagement, service learning, HELP OTHERS DESPITE THEIR HECTIC SCHEDULES. and voluntarism are critical to being an educated and well-rounded citizen,” says John Martone, the University’s vice presi- dent for student development. “Civic engagement is something we need in order …students who participate in volunteer to have a society and a good quality of life.” On the William Paterson campus, this activities gain an understanding of the interest in community-based service trans- lates into as many kinds of activities as there political context around which social are imaginations to dream up projects that will help someone who needs it. problems arise—the moral, religious, University students manifest that sense of social responsibility in numerous ways. and political perspectives Sophomore Rickiann Pack joined the Catholic Campus Ministry, through which in new civic engagement-focused academic and discussion—and classrooms provide she volunteers as a tutor for St. Therese’s classes through the American Democracy that space.” School, an elementary school in Paterson. Project (ADP) on campus. This project is She adds that “ADP is a citizenship April Verhuez, a junior and president of the part of a national initiative sponsored by revival program; it’s rediscovering your University’s Pi Iota chapter of Alpha Kappa the American Association of State Colleges rights—and the lesson is ‘stand up, don’t Alpha, Inc., the oldest African American and Universities (AASCU) and the New be passive.’” sorority in the nation, was motivated to York Times that seeks to increase the civic According to Davis, students who participate in, among other things, a five- engagement levels of U.S. students attend- participate in volunteer activities gain an mile fundraising walk for the March of ing public colleges and universities in the understanding of the political context Dimes. And Jennifer Riggins, a May 2005 twenty-first century. around which social problems arise—the graduate with a degree in political science, “Civic engagement programs and moral, religious, and political perspectives. volunteered as secretary general of the community-based learning courses are a “Students begin to understand how Middle School Model United Nations, a burgeoning trend nationally,” says Christine complex many community issues are,” she campus program held for Paterson students Kelly, associate professor of political science, says. “They also see that their involvement that duplicates committees and projects who teaches civic engagement classes and is important, and that without time spent of the United Nations in New York City, is the director of ADP at William Paterson. in the field, nothing is accomplished.” providing them with a valuable learning For the past two spring semesters, Kelly Perhaps most gratifying, both faculty experience. and Wartyna Davis, a professor of political members say, has been the response of the And these are just a few of the more science and chair of the department, have students. “I think the course has provided than one thousand students on campus who taught a pilot course, Civic Engagement: an empowering experience, and an epiphany combine service with academics. Nationally, Theory and Practice. The course requires for the majority of the students,” says Davis. almost one-third of college and university students to read texts on American “I’ve seen that spark, when they make the students are engaged in community service, government, public policy, community connection between political theories and according to Campus Compact, a national politics, and moral and ethical dimensions the real world they’re functioning in. It’s coalition of more than nine hundred col- of service; identify a community problem what I love as a teacher.” leges and university presidents who are and/or issue of interest; evaluate historical According to Kelly, “Given the financial, committed to fulfilling the civic purposes and contemporary responses to the prob- work, family, and academic pressures on of higher education. The organization lem; and spend a minimum of thirty hours so many of our students, a credit-bearing promotes community service initiatives in the community. course such as ours simultaneously provides that develop a student’s citizenship skills The purpose of the service component the context for intellectual growth and among other activities. is to “give students an opportunity to be community service. What we have seen is a Introducing a service-learning compo- critically engaged and to test the theories hunger and a touching air of gratitude on PAGE W21 nent into the curriculum represents a shift of citizenship and democracy in the real the part of the students for the opportunity. TWENTY-ONE from the traditional pedagogy of teaching. world,” says Davis. “The ADP, various This simply says it all.” According to a 2002 survey by the Institute studies, and all the major civic organizations “Communities and citizenship can be for Higher Education Policy, “seventy-four find that lifelong participation is a product difficult concepts,” Kelly adds. “But citizen- percent of college courses rely on lectures, of combined intellectual and experiential ship without community is inconceivable. but a growing number are adopting an learning. This is most powerful when We think of citizenship as an individual array of other strategies, including service academics are combined with work in the status, but it doesn’t really make sense on learning, experiential education, problem- community.” its own. It’s a truly collective concept.” based learning, and collaborative learning.” Readings in class give context to the This is a lesson learned by Yesenia Service learning has gained the most concept of civic engagement. “Volunteering Mazariegos, who graduated in May 2005 popularity. At William Paterson, students programs are often temporary, and not with a degree in political science and a belong to numerous student service groups, deeply cognitive,” says Kelly. “But context minor in Latin American studies. Her including fraternities and sororities and emerges when understanding of a problem family comes from Guatemala. religious organizations. Some are involved is combined with reflection, experience, “There are many reasons why I chose to

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 participate in this ADP course,” she says. those who are illiterate,” he adds, “I would opportunities to volunteer and they can “My family came to this country, like many have the same preconceived notions that select those that appeal to them, have an others, as immigrants…searching for the many others have. The course’s central interest in, or can simply fit into their ‘American dream,’ a better life for them- objective was to demonstrate that civic crowded schedules. Volunteers help seniors selves and their children. When I learned participation and community empowerment at the Preakness Nursing Home; tutor about this course, I felt it would be a great are the keys to a healthy democracy.” students at St. Therese’s in Paterson; assist opportunity to help out my community The American Democracy Project is people at the North Jersey Developmental and people like my family.” continuing to develop more classes with a Center; feed the hungry at Eva’s Kitchen, Mazariegos worked at the Hispanic civic engagement component. Up to nine a homeless shelter in Paterson; work on Development Center in Newark, which new classes in a variety of departments Father Lou’s television talk show, The provides many services to the Hispanic including art, middle school education, Word: Alive and Well (which is filmed at community. While there, she helped teach a women’s studies, Spanish, environmental the chapel), and airs on more than forty-five class designed to assist clients in preparing science, urban studies, political science, and cable networks nationwide; or serve as for their citizenship test by reviewing nursing are in the planning stages, with lectors or music ministers in the Jesus test questions. many scheduled to be offered during the Christ Prince of Peace Chapel. For prospective citizens, the appointment spring 2006 semester. Father Lou believes that volunteering with the Immigration and Naturalization Often, a willingness to make a difference is a way for students to grow as individuals. Service (INS) is nerve-racking, especially in someone’s life is the necessary spur that “It’s important to volunteer to come out for those whose first language is not English. motivates a student, or an awareness of of our shells and our own worlds,” he They must meet with a representative who things that need to be done. says. “Sometimes, it’s easy for us to make asks them questions in English. Passing the Rickiann Pack, an anthropology major judgments about others. As volunteers our test, and achieving American citizenship and president of the Catholic Campus eyes can be opened.” requires only correct answers. A lot rides Ministry Club, calls herself “volunteer He says that service to poor, homeless, on knowing the right answer—it is the key and hungry people provides students with to the door that opens the American dream an experience that is meaningful and edu- for many. cational. “Our mission is to offer students “One of the things I learned from this these many different opportunities to be project is that one person can make a dif- active and involved,” Father Lou adds. ference in others’ lives,” says Mazariegos. This past spring, Faith Zahn of “I also learned that there is a lot of social Voorhees, unity chair of the Greek Senate, injustice in the world. When these people the governing body of fraternities and go to the INS to take their citizenship test sororities on campus, was looking for a they get treated as inferiors, not equals. If volunteer activity for spring break. Her they make one mistake or sit down before search led her to the Habitat for Humanity’s they are told to, they do not pass and have Collegiate Challenge. A junior majoring in to wait three months to go back. Since I sociology, Zahn says she always wanted to never had to go through this because I was volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, which born here, I did not know exactly what is also the national philanthropy of her

they go through. They have to go to this DIANE LAGALA, A MEMBER OF ALPHA PHI OMEGA, HELPS sorority, Alpha Sigma Tau. building and wait there for hours, nervous, PAINT THE PLAYGROUND AT A SCHOOL IN PATERSON She spread the word around campus and wait for their name to be called. Once and easily recruited thirteen students from they are called, they have to make sure they addicted.” She began volunteering as a four sororities and fraternities and several PAGE do not make one mistake, or their chance is student at Mary Help of Christians High students who were unaffiliated with groups, W22 TWENTY-TWO blown. This is very hard for them, especially School, where service hours were required, who were eager to join her in the project. when they have been part of this society and was also a member of her church’s Zahn and her group chose to travel to for so long, to be rejected.” youth group. Mechanicsville, Virginia and spend the week Another student in the University’s She decided to attend William Paterson helping to build a house for a working father course, Elvis Arias, spent his community because of the very active and established with a young child and disabled parent. service time at a literacy center in Paterson campus ministry run by Father Louis J. “It was hard work and we were sore, but working with clients who couldn’t read. Scurti, through which she could continue we were so happy doing it,” says Zahn. He discovered “illiteracy exists in massive her involvement in the community. “One “Our group chemistry was amazing. We had numbers, especially in poor urban areas Sunday before I enrolled, I attended Mass a very positive energy and we were proud such as Paterson. It would have been at the chapel,” she recalls. “There was of what we were doing.” The students impossible to gain the level of understand- such a welcoming environment, I felt right had an opportunity to meet the father and ing I now have about literacy just by reading at home.” young boy who will live in the home, and articles and listening to lectures. Without The campus ministry club offers stu- Zahn describes the entire experience as the experience of working directly with dents who are service-minded many gratifying. “I don’t think people have an simulation of the United Nations, the “world parliament.” The worldwide system is a collection of conferences, mostly in the United States, but also in many nations, MEMBERS OF ALPHA PHI OMEGA AND CATHOLIC where students gather and represent nations CAMPUS MINISTRY JOINED or diplomats in debating real world issues. TOGETHER TO VOLUNTEER Some of William Paterson’s students have AT A SCHOOL IN PATERSON taken this a step further and each year host a Middle School Model United Nations staffed mostly by volunteers from the Political Science Club. This year, Riggins, who also served as editor-in-chief of the Beacon, served as secretary general of the Middle School Model U.N. More than two hundred stu- dents from schools in Paterson, all seventh and eighth graders, participated in the event, with approximately fifteen to twenty student leaders from the University. THE STUDENTS WHO SPENT SPRING BREAK 2005 WORKING “We run the program, which takes up FOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN an entire semester, for no academic credit,” VIRGINIA ON THE JOB SITE Riggins reports. “But this is the most fulfill- ing thing that I’ve done at this University. ” Students are taught all the rules and procedures, and they spend time research- ing their chosen country’s policies. “The kids are amazing,” Riggins says. “They learn about public speaking; most of them are initially terrified but in the end they love it. Also, as they find out more about the understanding of how much poverty there Alpha’s theme, “To Serve Mankind.” Every countries they are representing, they is. People who need help are no different other Saturday, Virhuez and the members become very passionate about the issues. than the rest of us,” she says. of Pi Iota participate in the Ivy Reading It’s important to find out what’s going on Zahn looks forward to a career in social AKAdemy, a reading tutorial program for in the world.” work when she graduates, and says she’d students at Paterson Academy elementary Through the program, William Paterson love to volunteer again. She established a school. “We bring the children muffins and students forge a strong connection with Habitat for Humanity student chapter at juice for breakfast, read stories to them, Paterson and get to see what kids from William Paterson this year, which has and encourage them to appreciate reading Paterson are like, Riggins adds. “But it begun working with the local Habitat as a leisure activity. It’s rewarding for the also opens the eyes of the younger students chapter in Paterson. The student chapter volunteers, including many who are teachers about a college that’s so close to their also will be raising funds so that they can or aspiring teachers, to have an opportunity homes,” she says. participate in future regional or national to work one-on-one with the children,” Martone, the vice president for student Habitat projects. she says. The literary program is part of a development, maintains that volunteering PAGE “Volunteering like this to build a house, joint project between Alpha Kappa Alpha W23 and being otherwise involved in the com- TWENTY-THREE showing up at a church, or helping to tutor and the U.S. Department of Education. munity permits a student the opportunity a child, changes students,” Martone says. A physical education major who lives on for self-reflection. “Reflection, with the “They will reflect back on it, and this will campus and keeps a full schedule working help of a professor, lets a student figure be something they will remember for the nights and weekends at a car dealership, out what’s really going on,” he says. “It rest of their lives.” Virhuez still finds the time to volunteer. allows students to see the world through a Some students, like April Virhuez of She views it as an opportunity to have different lens. We’re a part of a global society, Newark, seek out their own opportunities new experiences, learn business skills, and and civic engagement can help students to in ways to help others. Virhuez serves as meet new people. “If I can work and go to understand what’s going on in society and president of Pi Iota, a William Paterson school, I can find some time to help my in their own neighborhoods. When people University chapter of Alpha Kappa community too,” she says. get involved we see ordinary people doing Alpha, Inc. Learning to live in a global society is extraordinary things.” w Virhuez and her sorority sisters volun- part of the mission of the Model United teer for a variety of activities that fulfill the Nations Club organized by the Department commitment embodied in Alpha Kappa of Political Science. The Model U.N. is a

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 HOW WE’RE GROWING DEVELOPMENTNEWS WHERE WE’RE GOING Comprehensive Campaign Nearing Goal Philanthropist Supports Hobart William Paterson University's $30 million ■ An $80,000 gift from the Holly Beach comprehensive campaign, Affecting Lives, Library Association to support the Manor Restoration Shaping Worlds, is now in its final stages. To research on dune grass by Michael Peek, date, the campaign has raised $24.8 million, assistant professor of biology representing nearly eighty-three percent ■ A $50,000 gift from Aaron Van Duyne of the goal. Funds are still being sought ’75 and his wife Jacqueline for scholarships for endowment, scholarships, the annual for nursing students dedicated to oncology fund, and strategic academic initiatives. nursing “We continue to make tremendous ■ A $50,000 gift from Richard Miller to progress, and we are immensely grateful for create an endowed scholarship in honor of the support of the many alumni and friends his wife, Sharon Miller ’57, a retired teacher of William Paterson whose generosity is from the Wayne Board of Education essential to the continued success of the University,” says Sandra S. Deller, vice ■ A $50,000 gift from State Farm Insurance president for institutional advancement. Companies Foundation in support of the “The campaign has already affected the Financial Literacy Program PHILANTHROPIST DAVID F. B OLGER lives of our students by providing schol- ■ A $50,000 gift from Maryann Carroll- arships, academic support, and new pro- Guthrie ’76, president of King Harbor A three-to-one $25,000 challenge grant grams.With $5.2 million in gifts still to be Marina, to create a Family Business Ini- from philanthropist David F. Bolger kicks raised, we invite our friends and the Uni- tiative to study and lend expertise to the off the Hobart Manor Revitalization versity community to join us in having an practice and management of family-owned Campaign, which seeks to refurbish Hobart impact on the lives of our students and the businesses. Manor. The oldest building on campus, future of William Paterson University.” ■ A $50,000 gift from Dr. Marjorie Heller Hobart Manor is listed on the National Recent highlights of the campaign include: ’62, superintendent of schools, Little Silver Register for Historic Places. Board of Education, to support the educa- ■ The John Victor Machuga Foundation One of the few remaining examples of tional leadership program has offered gifts totaling $1 million for Tudor castle architecture in the area, Hobart ■ scholarships, endowment, and student A $50,000 gift from Frank Maltese and Manor is the centerpiece of the University. programming support. The Machuga the Maltese family to create an endowed With its public rooms furnished in period Foundation became the University’s first scholarship style, it serves as the location for many of $1 million donor in 1999 with a gift for ■ A $50,000 commitment from Dr. Orlando the institution’s most important events, scholarships and student programming and Lorraine Saa towards the Maria Saa/ including the Hobart Manor Recital Series and receptions for the Distinguished ■ Marietta Cutillo Family Scholarship Fund, PAGE An anonymous gift of $150,000 to support Lecturer Series. While the building received W24 scholarships for financially needy students an endowed scholarship named in memory exterior repairs and interior renovations TWENTY-FOUR of their mothers. from historically underrepresented groups during the 1980s and 1990s, its continual Additional donations have provided ■ A $100,000 gift from Robert Devine ’74, use once again necessitates structural support for a student leadership program, president and CEO of Hartz Mountain, improvements and refurbished furnishings. athletics, student activities, faculty research, Inc., in support of the Christos M. Cotsakos Bolger, through his organization, the the Jazz Studies Program, the Small College of Business Bolger Foundation, is furthering the impe- Business Development Center, Paterson tus to restore the building to its former Teachers for Tomorrow, and the first glory by offering funding to renovate its Women’s Leadership Conference. public spaces. “The building should be inspirational and should be as attractive as your home,” he says. He offered the challenge grant because he wants the DEVELOPMENT University community to be a part of the The terms of Bolger’s $25,000 gift to the “Helping people reach their goals process of the renovation. Hobart Campaign require the University was her focus. Education is more “We are pleased that Mr. Bolger has to raise $75,000 in donations or pledges by important today than ever and this given us this challenge grant to assist us January 15, 2006. Those interested in is a wonderful way to contribute with the revitalization and redecorating of donating to the campaign can contact the to the University and support Hobart Manor,” says Judith Linder, execu- Office of Institutional Advancement at education.” tive director of alumni relations, who has 973.720.2615. Simmons, who was a teacher/ organized a committee of alumni and friends librarian in the Newark school

of the University to assist with the project. district, also worked part time as a NEWS “We are excited about the opportunity to flight attendant on an international keep this University treasure a welcoming Retired University route for Trans World Airlines place for the University community and (TWA). Her weekday job, teaching, its visitors for generations to come.” Employee Is fulfilled her altruistic wishes to Over the years, Bolger’s philanthropy First Member of help the students who needed her, while has focused often, though not exclusively, her weekend job, flying, indulged her pas- on the needs of children, senior citizens, Hobart Society sion for travel, meeting new people, and and quality of life issues. The Bolger having new experiences. She kept up her Foundation has awarded grants to many busy schedule despite also suffering from organizations in New Jersey, including a rare form of arthritis. The Valley Hospital, the Ridgewood, Glen “She loved teaching, and never would Rock, and Midland Park libraries, the have given that up,” Emerson says. “She Christian Health Care Center, and other felt that’s where she was needed, and felt local and national organizations. that she could make a difference there. But Bolger is one of five children; his parents she loved to fly because it was an opportu- were immigrants from the Netherlands nity to travel to distant cities such as Paris, who scrimped and saved for their children’s Rome, and Monte Carlo.” education, eventually putting them all Simmons would pick up flights on through college. His father worked in the weekends, and also flew during the summer Pennsylvania steel mills, and his mother months when she wasn’t teaching. Emerson raised chickens, ducks, and sheep, grew often traveled with her to visit friends and vegetables, and bred and sold Irish setter relatives. Simmons was working on TWA puppies to pay for their tuition. Flight 800 to Rome on July 17, 1995; the He achieved his success by working for plane crashed shortly after take-off near it. His long career, which began in the Air the coast of Long Island. Force and moved on to real estate, insurance, “That was a rough time,” Emerson THE LATE OLIVIA PHILLIPS SIMMONS ’68, WHOSE MOTHER, and banking, is ongoing. He is chairman of remembers. “But thinking of all the wonder- DOTTIE EMERSON, IS THE THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE the holding company of the Farmers and HOBART SOCIETY ful times we had together is what keeps me Merchants State Bank, a firm with assets of going. She was a wonderful, caring person.” more than $550 million and more than two Dottie Emerson, a retired member of the Emerson retired as a supervisor in the hundred employees. William Paterson University staff, has Registrar’s Office in 1989, after a thirty-year As a teen, while attending the University become the first charitable gift annuity career on campus that began in the Print of Pittsburgh, he followed his father into the donor in the University’s history. Her Shop, or the duplicating room as it was steel mills on nights and weekends. Working donation, given in memory of her daughter, called then. She came to campus in 1959 PAGE W25 in the local mill, he met and worked with Olivia Phillips-Simmons ’68, has earned her because she had previously worked the night TWENTY-FIVE people of all ages, from other walks of life, membership in the newly established Hobart shift as a lab technician and wanted to be other ethnicities, and countries. Society, created to recognize those alumni home for her three young daughters in the “Working in the steel mill brought me and friends of the University who include evening. She enjoyed being on campus, and into contact with many different people,” the institution in their long-term plans. attending cultural events at Shea Center. Bolger remembers. “These folks, many of Emerson previously established a Today, Emerson continues to visit the them from different cultural backgrounds, scholarship in her daughter’s name, given University, often bringing her two other befriended me and helped me. I’ve never annually to a single parent pursuing a daughters and her grandchildren along to forgotten that. Philanthropy helps me to degree in teaching. She sees the annuity introduce them to the campus that changed repay the obligation for what I received as a way of honoring her daughter, and her and Simmons’s lives. then. Not to those people specifically, but helping out students as well. to the generations that followed who might “The annuity is a way of continuing need help.” what Olivia wanted to do,” Emerson says.

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 Foundation Raises More Than $125,000 for American International Group; Stephanie Goldberg ’81, chief nursing officer and Scholarships at Annual Legacy Award Dinner vice president, Hospital for Special Surgery; Mark Kozaki ’79, M.A. ’80, media and The William Paterson University Founda- college education,” says President Arnold entertainment industry executive; and tion raised more than $125,000 for its Speert. “We thank all our donors for their Maryann Carroll-Guthrie ’72, M.A. ’76, scholarship fund during the Foundation’s generosity and for their commitment to president, King Harbor Marina, Inc. 15th annual Legacy Award Dinner and our students.” The Faculty Service Award is given by Silent/Live Auction held on April 9 at The Recipients of the Legacy Award were the University’s Alumni Association to Villa at Mountain Lakes. Three hundred The Russell Berrie Foundation, located in faculty members nominated by William forty guests attended, making last year’s Teaneck; John Hovey, president of Videx Paterson alumni in recognition of demon- dinner the largest and most successful in Equipment Corp. in Paterson; and Provi- strated career achievement and commitment the history of the event, which also includ- dent Bank, located in Jersey City. to the University. Recipients were ed the presentation of the University’s The Distinguished Alumni Award is Stephen Marcone, professor of music and Distinguished Alumni Awards and Faculty presented by the William Paterson Alumni director of the music management pro- Service Award. Association to outstanding University gram, and Gabriel Vitalone, professor “Support for the Legacy Dinner helps alumni in recognition of significant achieve- emeritus, curriculum and instruction. to continue a tradition of philanthropic ment. Recipients were: Anthony Coletta ’64, support that provides opportunities for professor of elementary and early child- students who may not otherwise be able to hood education, William Paterson Universi- LEGACY CHAIR follow through on their dreams to receive a ty; Stephen Collesano ’74, vice president,

DISTINGUISHED HONORARY CHAIRS Amy - Collesano Family

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TOP: ARNOLD SPEERT (FOURTH FROM LEFT), PRESIDENT, DOMENICK STAMPONE (SEATED), PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, AND SANDRA S. DELLER (FOURTH FROM RIGHT), VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT AND PRESIDENT OF THE WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, JOIN DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENTS (FROM LEFT) MARK KOZAKI, MARYANN CARROLL-GUTHRIE, STEPHEN COLLESANO, ANTHONY COLETTA, AND STEPHANIE GOLDBERG, AND FACULTY SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENTS STEPHEN MARCONE AND GABRIEL VITALONE Support William BOTTOM LEFT: PRESIDENT ARNOLD SPEERT AND VICE PRESIDENT SANDRA DELLER (RIGHT) WITH ANGELICA BERRIE (CENTER), VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF RUSS BERRIE AND COMPANY, INC., WHO ACCEPTED THE LEGACY AWARD Paterson University ON BEHALF OF THE RUSSELL BERRIE FOUNDATION With a Planned Gift BOTTOM CENTER: PRESIDENT SPEERT (RIGHT) CHATS WITH PAUL PANTOZZI, CEO AND CHAIRMAN OF THE PROVIDENT BANK, AND LINDA NIRO ‘76, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER FOR PROVIDENT, WHICH ALSO RECEIVED THE Generations of William Paterson alumni LEGACY AWARD and friends have made the future of the University a philanthropic priority by BOTTOM RIGHT: PRESIDENT SPEERT PRESENTS THE LEGACY AWARD TO JOHN HOVEY, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF VIDEX EQUIPMENT CORP. making a planned gift. UNIVERSITY “William Paterson University cherishes return and the benefit of tax savings, plus Hobart Society the trust that donors bestow upon us public recognition if desired. At the same when making a planned gift,” says Joanne time, the University receives much-needed CHARLES ANDERSON ’63, M.A. ’66 — Bequest for Education Scholarships Nigrelli, executive director of development. support to continue major projects that “The University is grateful for the gen- enhance the institution and the quality of DAVID CHENG — Charitable Lead Trust; The Library erosity of those who have planned for the life of its students. HELEN DEMAREST ’27 — Charitable Remainder Trust; future of William Paterson University and A deferred charitable gift annuity can Scholarship Fund for Education REPORT our students.” also offer an income tax deduction now CHRISTOS COTSAKOS ’73 AND TAMI In honor of these special donors, and in and supplement retirement income later, COTSAKOS ’71 — Irrevocable Bequest conjunction with the celebration of the with even higher rates of return. For those GRACE DEGRAAF ’36 — Charitable Gift Annuity University’s 150th anniversary, the Hobart who have maximized their contributions DOROTHY EMERSON — Charitable Gift Annuity Society has been established to recognize to their pension plans, a deferred annuity BARBARA GRANT ’54 — Charitable Gift Annuity alumni and friends who include William can offer a special opportunity to support AGNES GRIMSHAW — Bequest; Chemistry and Biology Paterson in their long-term plans. William Paterson. Scholarships Donors can become a member of the “You can make a gift that costs you RICHARD KULP ’58 — Bequest; General Endowment Hobart Society by including a gift (regard- nothing during your lifetime by making HOWARD LEIGHTON — Bequest; Art Scholarships less of the amount) to William Paterson in William Paterson University a beneficiary FRANK MALTESE — Bequest; Maltese Family their will, trust, life insurance policy, or of your will, your life insurance policy, or Scholarship Fund retirement plan, or with a gift—such as your retirement plan,” says Nigrelli. For RAYMOND MILLER — Bequest; Paterson Teachers for the charitable gift annuity—that pays them a confidential illustration or a copy of a Tomorrow Scholarships and/or a loved one a lifetime income. brochure on charitable gift annuities, JACOB RUBIN — Bequest; The Honors Program William Paterson offers planned giving contact her at 973.720.2332 or CLAIR WIGHTMAN — Estate; Scholarship for opportunities that can provide a generous [email protected]. Educational Leadership

Annual Scholarship Louise Theiller. “Patti loved nursing and education,” says Bravenboer, a three-time we wanted to perpetuate that by setting up recipient of the scholarship who will grad- Luncheon Brings a program to help other nursing students. uate in May 2006. “I’m a student, I have a Donors and Student “We’re very happy that we chose job, and I commute. The scholarship helps William Paterson as the place to set up me because I don’t have to work as many Scholars Together these scholarships because we felt that hours, which gives me more time to study.” money would go further at a state school During the 2004-2005 academic year, the The University’s outstanding scholars, and would be of more value to the students William Paterson University Foundation and the many generous William Paterson to use for their education.” awarded more than $425,000 in Alumni and alumni and friends who support the Foun- Lori Bravenboer was one of three Foundation scholarships. Approximately dation and Alumni Association scholarship recipients of the Theiller Scholarship one hundred fifty of these scholarships programs, come together each year to cele- present to express her gratitude for their were awarded to undergraduate and gradu- brate at the annual scholarship luncheon. generosity. “The scholarship is motivating ate students through an online application “This event gives our scholarship because it’s nice to know that there are process that drew 334 applicants. Awards recipients an opportunity to meet their people who want to help me with my ranged from $400 to $5,000. w benefactors and express their appreciation for their scholarships,” says Sandra Deller, PAGE vice president for institutional advancement. W27 “And our donors are able to witness first- TWENTY-SEVEN hand the impact that their philanthropy makes in the lives of our students.” Among those present at the 2005 lun- cheon were Charles and Louise Theiller, who established five $2,000 scholarships in memory of their late daughter, Patricia Theiller Franklin ’86, who loved her job as a nurse and was a wife and dedicated mother to Katelyn, now seventeen, and Saralyn, now twelve. “We chose to establish the scholarships as a tangible way to give meaning to her

experience at William Paterson,” says CHARLES AND LOUISE THEILLER (FAR LEFT AND SECOND FROM LEFT) WITH SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS (L.TO R.) SHERYL HUTCHINSON, LORI BRAVENBOER, AND MARISA FUENTES. STANDING IN THE REAR ARE THEIR TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS, SARALYN AND KATELYN FRANKLIN

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 Pi neer News WHERE SPORTS SET US APART KEVIN BURKHARDT: GIVING VOICE TO NEW YORK SPORTS

Paterson in the fall of 1992 with every intention of becom- ing a television sportscaster. He covered Pioneer athletic events for WPBN-TV and was a consistent contributor to the network’s news and sports shows. However, a senior-year internship at WGHT-AM 1560, a local radio outlet located just off Hamburg Turnpike in Pompton Lakes, led Burkhardt down a different broadcast path. Upon graduating in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in communication, he turned a part-time job into a full-time spot that enabled him to build a sports department that broad- cast year-round. “The owner, John Silliman, KEVIN BURKHARDT ‘97 ON THE AIR AT WFAN 660 liked me and believed in me,” Burkhardt says. “It was a small PAGE n recent months, Kevin Burkhardt has clearly made a daily sports updates for WCBS- W28 station, so I was able to make TWENTY-EIGHT IBurkhardt ’97 has become a name for himself in New York AM, where he covered Phil mistakes and learn from them. major voice on the New York sports radio. Mickelson winning the 2005 I had the chance to learn on sports radio scene. His distinc- “You have to be good and PGA Championships, U.S. the fly.” tive baritone booms through you have to be lucky,” Burkhardt Open Tennis, New York Giants He also became the public the speakers of New York says. “I guess that I have been home games, and other profes- address announcer at Pioneer metropolitan-area sports junkies both.” sional and college events. athletic events, including who tune in to WFAN-AM That’s an understatement, It is the perfect job for a men’s and women’s basketball 660, one of the nation’s preem- given the breadth and depth of sports junkie—even one who, doubleheaders. Meanwhile, inent all-sports stations. Hired Burkhardt’s assignments and despite never being much of an he kept sending out tapes to in September 2005 to cover the subjects. Prior to landing the athlete growing up, admits, “I various radio stations hoping New York Jets following a stint full-time position at WFAN— knew I wanted to do something to make a leap up from the as afternoon sports anchor for where he also does occasional in sports.” local radio ranks. One of those WCBS-AM Newsradio 880, call-in shows—he provided Burkhardt arrived at William stations was WCBS. After a News neer Pi few years came and went, he disposition on the air. He’s got “Even now, every time I her to predict the figured his voice would never a lot of positive traits.” hear him on the radio I get Super Bowl. boom across those airwaves. Says Burkhardt: “I really butterflies,” says Rachel Clearly, But one day out of the blue, started to see rewards that day Burkhardt ’97, who met Kevin Burkhardt has WCBS called, and Burkhardt for the hard work I put in. It in 1996 at WPBN and married found his niche jumped at the chance. He went was awesome, just such a great him in June 2000. “I remember over the airwaves. to work at WCBS part-time on feeling.” his first night, making sure I “Not everyone Thursdays and Sundays doing Another opportunity was listening to the radio every gets to go to work sports updates and covering the knocked in November 2004, time he came on. I’m just so and enjoy his job New York Giants beat, while when WCBS sports anchor proud of him for all of the hard everyday, but I do,” continuing to work full-time at Scott Stanford was leaving for work and dedication he put in.” Burkhardt says. WGHT. In 2003 he made the a similar job at WWOR-TV. His witty and winning “My friends all boldest move of his career: The station held on-air audi- reports have made him a rising think it’s the quitting his job at WGHT and tions; when the spot was star: a bit he used at WGHT coolest job in the world, to talk becoming a full-time car sales- filled January 1, 2005, it was featuring his grandmother, about sports for a living. I think man at Pine Belt Chevrolet in Burkhardt offering the latest “Football With Nana,” was they’re right.” w Eatontown while hoping a full- happenings in the sports world. used as a two-minute skit for time position would develop in New York. Fortunately, his work at SOFTBALL TEAM REACHES DIVISION III WCBS remained steady. And the general manager of the car NATIONAL TOURNAMENT dealership, Mike Terbino, let lasted their rivals again, with Burkhardt maneuver his sched- both games being decided by ule around opportunities to one run, to capture their second earn precious on-air experience. regional crown. Burkhardt’s radio career Individually, sophomore further advanced in late 2003. utility player Liz Sisca (.372, A call to colleague Eric Spitz, school-record 13 HR, 34 RBI) then the assistant program- became the ninth All-Ameri- ming director at WFAN, led to can in school history when she his WFAN debut on a Saturday was named to the National morning doing updates on the Fastpitch Coaches Association Chris “Mad Dog” Russo show. (NFCA)/Louisville Slugger The following Tuesday, he was All-America first team. She THE SOFTBALL TEAM CELEBRATES WINNING THE EAST REGIONAL TOURNAMENT giving scores and news every also earned All-NJAC and All- twenty minutes on the nation- he William Paterson soft- to predict how the season would East Region first team honors. ally known “Mike and the Mad Tball team enjoyed a dream end—and then go out and Freshman pitcher Diana Dog Show.” The duo devoted season last spring. Although prove themselves clairvoyant. Schraer (17-1, school-record PAGE a ten-minute portion of their the Pioneers came up a few Each of the players envi- 0.65 ERA) was named to the W29 show, in fact, to praising victories short of their quest to sioned the Pioneers beating All-NJAC first team and All- TWENTY-NINE Burkhardt’s voice and style; win a national championship, New Jersey Athletic Conference East Region second team along Russo and Mike Francesa took they reached the NCAA (NJAC) rival Rutgers-Camden with junior catcher Mindy turns proclaiming him “the Division III Softball National for the conference title and Coxe (.329, 3 HR, 26 RBI) and next big star” of sports radio. Championship Finals and fin- East Regional championships. junior third baseman Nicky “We needed some people to ished as one of the top eight In the NJAC tournament, the Arias (.296, 15 RBI). Coxe was fill in and called on Kevin. He teams in the nation. Pioneers battled out of the also selected to the 2004-05 did a great job,” says Spitz, who The Pioneers’ (37-11-1) loser’s bracket to beat Rutgers- NJAC All-Academic first team. is now programming director success followed the scripts Camden twice for the champi- “We just had a tremendous at WFAN. “He is very smooth the players wrote prior to onship, including a 1-0, season, a tremendous ride all on the air, has a good knowl- postseason play. On the eve of fifteen inning victory that the way through this year,” says edge of sports, thinks quickly the playoffs, head coach Hallie lasted nearly three-and-a-half Cohen. “With most of our play- on his feet, and has a pleasant Cohen urged her players to hours. In the East Regional ers returning, we have a bright w write newspaper-style articles tournament, the Pioneers out- future ahead of us, too.”

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 FOOTBALL TEAM FINISHES SEASON WITH 5-5 RECORD Under the leadership of new coach Mike Miello, the 2005 William Paterson University football team finished with a 5-5 record for its most successful sea-

Pi neer News son since 1993. The Pioneers completed the season with three straight victories, including a dramatic 20-19 upset of Rowan Univer- sity, which had been ranked No. 2 in Division III. “We've taken some steps

toward getting to where we COACH MIELLO LEADS THE TEAM ON TO WIGHTMAN FIELD want to go, and we will get bet- ter,” Miello said. “Our players The season was full of year for the first time ever. d3football.com. In addition, showed a lot of heart all season highlights. The Pioneers Individually, twelve student- Miello tied John Crea (1982) and I am encouraged by the defeated two NCAA Division athletes earned weekly awards for the best showing by a first- way we ended the season. It is III playoff teams in Rowan and from the New Jersey Athletic year coach.w a nice building block toward Wilkes University. Also, they Conference, Eastern Collegiate next year and the future.” shut out two opponents in a Athletic Conference, and

FIELD HOCKEY COACH AND PLAYER COMPETE IN AUSTRALIA the 2005 DrinkSmart* North- The United States field ern University Games in hockey team competed in a Cairns, Queensland. Bard and double elimination tournament Shannon joined other student- against ten other teams. It fin- athletes and coaches from the ished sixth. northeastern United States to “The field hockey competi- play field hockey against uni- tion was exciting because we versity teams from Australia were able to play against and New Zealand. women from Australia and New USA Athletes International Zealand and see how different offers amateur coaches and their style of play was,” says athletes the opportunity to Shannon.

PAGE participate in Olympic-style In addition to participating W30 sporting events throughout the in four days of competition, THIRTY world, while allowing them to Bard and Shannon also visited broaden their educational and two of Australia’s natural won- cultural knowledge. The non- ders, the Great Barrier Reef profit organization coordinates and the Wet Tropics Rainforest, teams for both men and women as well as the Currumbin in sports ranging from softball Wildlife Sancturay in Brisbane to lacrosse, with competitions and a number of aboriginal held in fourteen countries villages. “Everyone in Australia COACH LINDSAY BARD AND JUNIOR DEFENDER AMIE SHANNON throughout the world. Both was just so incredibly friendly,” illiam Paterson Univer- eled to Australia last summer as players and coaches must be says Bard. “It was a great cul- Wsity field hockey coach members of the USA Athletes recommended to the organiza- tural experience.” w Lindsay Bard and junior International women’s field tion in order to be considered defender Amie Shannon trav- hockey team that competed at for selection. SPA L U M TN LIGHTI N E W S GREETINGS FROM YOUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Alumni,

here is a great deal of Under the Pool Table and won two Paterson Day 2005, co-chaired by William Paterson alumnae Rona excitement on campus. Perry Awards for Outstanding Rosenberg Simmons ’68 and Roslyn Rosenkranz Wagner ’69, was TThe renovation of the Original Production of a Play and held on February 20, 2005. I had a chance to catch up with Roz and John Victor Machuga Student Outstanding Sound Design. The Rona, lifelong friends and Florida residents with roots in Paterson, at Center and Wayne Hall, the con- Perry Awards recognize achieve- the Annual Florida Chapter Reunion held the same weekend at The struction of two new residence ment in community theater in Riverside Hotel, also in Ft. Lauderdale. halls, and the introduction of new New Jersey. The Young Alumni majors in Asian studies and pro- Chapter’s Senior Send-Off con- fessional sales are among the many tinues to grow…last January’s visible signs of progress at the reception (our first in the Rec University. While the institution Center) was well attended and moves forward, we have all enjoyed last spring’s Send-Off was the looking back at historic photos largest in the five-year history of and listening to stories of alumni, this event. faculty, and staff as we celebrated All of the above alumni out- William Paterson’s 150th anniver- reach activities are made possible sary during 2005. through your support of the Our alumni programming con- Alumni General Fund. When tinues to expand. Last year we you’re contacted by phone or hosted eight new events including receive an appeal in the mail ask- an alumni employee luncheon at ing for support, you are being the Alumni House during the hol- asked to help fund alumni pro- idays; a Nets Day sponsored by the gramming, scholarships, and Young Alumni Chapter; alumni grants. In order for your Alumni events in Florida including recep- Association to continue to grow tions after a Pioneers baseball and make an impact, we count on game in Tampa and at the home of your continued participation. Dick Stone ’57 and his wife Jean- To update your home and HERE I AM PHOTOGRAPHED WITH NINETY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CELIA BRENNER ROSEN ’29. PAGE nine on Marco Island; and a business contact information, I MET MRS. ROSEN AT PATERSON DAY 2005 FESTIVITIES IN FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA IN W31 THIRTY-ONE Valentine’s Day champagne recep- please visit our secure site at FEBRUARY. SHE WAS RECOGNIZED AS THE OLDEST LIVING ATTENDEE AND I WAS FORTUNATE TO SPEND A FEW MINUTES WITH HER. THIS NATIVE OF PATERSON AND CURRENT RESIDENT tion for our William Paterson www.wpunj.edu/alumni and follow OF PORTLAND, OREGON SHARED WITH ME HER STORIES ABOUT ATTENDING THE NORMAL sweethearts. the link for change of address. Be SCHOOL AND TEACHING IN THE LODI SCHOOL SYSTEM. IF YOU KNOW MRS. ROSEN OR The Association’s chapters also sure to include your preferred e- SOMEONE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN HER STUDENT, PLEASE CONTACT ME IN THE ALUMNI had a successful and exciting year. mail address so that we can contin- OFFICE AT [email protected]. I WILL BE HAPPY TO CONNECT Congratulations to the Nursing ue to keep you informed about the YOU WITH MRS. ROSEN. Alumni Chapter, which reached its exciting things happening at fund-raising goal in support of a William Paterson University. scholarship honoring deceased classmate Yvonne Parisen. The Spotlight Theater Company received eight nominations for the original stage production of Poems

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 Building Communities in Different Ways: Stephen T. Boswell,

LIGHT M.A. ’76, and Karen Axberg Boswell ’74, M.A. ‘95

hances are, if you top of the engineering operating officer,” student who lived at ninety-nine percent per- Clive and drive in field, he didn't begin his Boswell says. “However, if home with her family, she spiration.”

SPthe northeastern T United career as an engineer, I was going to run an earned a bachelor's degree “If you have some States, you've benefited although, like all mem- engineering company, I in English, taught English intelligence and are willing from the work of Stephen bers of the family, he was going to need to be for a while, worked in to work hard, you will suc- T. Boswell, M.A.'76. As a started out at the tender an engineer, so I signed publishing, and was a ceed,” he says. “Nothing professional engineer, age of fourteen working up at Stevens Institute of stay-at-home-mother. you learn is ever wasted. planner, municipal engi- summers in the family Technology.” He subse- “The education I Learn as much as you can. neer, public works manag- business. quently earned a double received at William Pater- Be a sponge and soak up master's degree in civil son was very strong,” she every experience. Educa- engineering in 1989, and states. “This school tion and training are very later a doctorate in envi- offered me a very good important. Pursue what ronmental engineering at education.” Some of the you like and what you're Stevens in 1991. He professors on campus good at in school, and do it accomplished this by sparked her interest in well. Our motto around going to school four English. “When I started here is do your best every- nights a week, fifty-two at William Paterson, I did day. The most valuable weeks a year. not know which field to thing we all have is time, The master's from study,” she remembers. so get as much out of each William Paterson, “Studying English was experience as you can, and although not directly not only a positive experi- don't forget to give some- related to engineering, has ence for me, but a perfect thing back.” fit as well.” Now that Kristen is in “I felt very prepared,” her senior year at Duke STEPHEN T. B OSWELL she continues. “The small University, studying engi- er, and environmental Meanwhile, the lure of class sizes allowed me to neering, Karen Boswell professional, he has used engineering was elusive get to know each student devotes her time to help- these skills to design many for Boswell. After earning and I felt that I was not ing others. Self-identified kinds of infrastructure an undergraduate degree just a number, but that as a “consummate volun- including roads and in biology and chemistry the professors took a real teer,” she tutors an eighth- bridges. from New York Universi- interest in me and my grade Ridgefield Park Boswell is president, ty in 1974, he taught education.” student in English, and is CEO, and managing officer chemistry, physics, and “I have a soft spot in an active volunteer at of Boswell Engineering, a biology at Westwood my heart for William Grace United Methodist family-owned engineering High School for four Paterson, and very fond Church in Wyckoff, where and construction manage- years. During this time, memories of my time she serves on the board of KAREN AXBERG BOSWELL ment firm founded by his he decided to pursue a there,” Karen says. “I trustees, chairs the wor- grandfather, David C. master's degree because been helpful, according to made some fine friends ship committee, and is Boswell, more than eighty he realized with such a Boswell. while I was on campus involved in numerous years ago. The firm has degree he could earn “The William Pater- that I am still close to.” other activities and com- grown from a small two- more money. son degree was excellent,” She taught English at mittees. She and her hus-

PAGE person operation to one This path led him to he says. “I was able to use Saddle Brook High band, who just celebrated W32 that employs more than William Paterson since that even though it was School for several years, their thirtieth wedding THIRTY-TWO three hundred people. his wife and childhood unrelated to engineering and worked as an assistant anniversary, also enjoy Clients have included the sweetheart, Karen Axberg because I was able to use editor at HOME maga- traveling out to their vaca- New Jersey Department of Boswell '74, M.A. '95, was a combination of my life zine for several more. tion home in Arizona. Transportation (the Route a graduate of the institu- experience and qualifying After their daughter, They keep their con- 17/Route 4 interchange, a tion, and he was familiar exams. Plus, Stevens Kristen, was born, Karen nection to William Pater- $120 million project his with it. He earned a mas- accepted all thirty credits became a stay-at-home- son strong by donating to firm brought in two years ter's degree in 1976 in from William Paterson mother, and used the time the Annual Fund. “Each ahead of schedule) and the biological sciences. towards the other at home to pursue a mas- year, we send the dona- New York State Thruway After leaving teaching, degrees.” ter's degree in English tion, and in return, we get Authority (the reconfigu- he moved to California to Karen equally valued that she received in 1995. a note from a student ration of I-87/I-287 from work for a large Fortune her time on campus. In Stephen Boswell whom that money has the Tappan Zee Bridge 100 company. “In 1987, many ways, she was typi- insists his success is all helped,” she says. “This Toll Plaza to the Saw Mill my older brother, who cal of her generation and about hard work. He relates back to the personal River Parkway). was president of the com- of the many other stu- quotes Thomas Edison, experiences we had as stu- Despite the fact that pany, asked me to come dents at William Paterson who said “genius is one dents and we are grateful Boswell has reached the back to become the chief at that time. A commuter percent inspiration, and for that personal touch.”w Gwendolyn Pough: Combining Writing With T SP Feminism to the Tune of Hip Hop LIGHT visit to the campus of advisement, and Kay ered being a rapper while cookie-cutter female Me, to be published in Amany years ago, Oglesby, a former staff in high school. As she images. Earlier, there was March 2006, and Sweet three influential profes- member in career ser- began to look at hip-hop more diversity. Today, Sensation, scheduled for sors, and a growing desire vices, for “their tremen- more critically, she real- everyone wants to be Lil’ January 2007. Genesis is a to be a writer shaped the dous role in shaping me ized that female rappers Kim or Foxy Brown. small, black-owned press college life of Gwendolyn as a student leader and were given short shrift. There are some rappers that publishes multicul- Pough ’92. making me the person I “Hip hop as a culture like Jean Grae who refuses tural novels. She has also “The very first time am today.” was not explored from the to take her clothes off, but written a romance book I came to the William She also discovered woman’s point of view,” can’t get a record deal for Harlequin Books new Paterson campus, I felt an an inchoate interest in she says. “I didn’t like with a major label. The imprint of African Ameri- immediate connection,” feminism, while enrolled that their participation in problem also lies with the can books called The Har- Pough says. “This is in a class given by Carole the culture was given a commercialization of the rington Legacy, set to hit where I needed to be.” Sheffield, professor of one-minute response and same images of women, the shelves in July 2006. Now an associate political science, called then forgotten.” when we could have a Pough is married to professor of writing, Politics and Sex. To correct that omis- variety of women.” Cedric Bolton, coordinator rhetoric, and women’s “This class totally sion and to start a dia- Pough says this creates for student engagement studies at Syracuse logue about women in hip a problem for young girls and outreach for the Office University, Pough is also hop, she wrote a book: because they are looking at of Multicultural Affairs at a published writer with Check It While I Wreck It: those images and thinking Syracuse University. several books in different Black Womanhood, Hip that’s the only way they can She enjoys the balance genres in various stages Hop Culture, and the Pub- be. Male rappers run the of writing scholarly works of publication. lic Sphere, a scholarly look gamut, according to Pough. and romance novels com- “I knew I wanted to at the topic. The book After several forays bined with an academic be a writer since I was focuses on the contribu- into non-fiction writing, life. Her education made twelve years old,” she tions of women rappers Pough, who has just fin- her realize that she could says. “I majored in and their function as role ished researching a book blend the two worlds. As a English, with a creative models to young women. about women’s book clubs professor, she likes work- writing focus.” During “A lot of women par- funded by a grant from ing with young people, and

her undergraduate years GWENDOLYN POUGH ‘92 ticipate in the hip hop the American Association teaching women’s studies on campus, her focus culture,” Pough says. “It’s of University Women, has and writing courses, but on writing shifted as she opened my eyes and a youth culture that’s returned to fiction writing, mostly she likes being able came into contact with exposed me to feminism more than just music. It her first love. She has to combine writing with professors who both and women’s rights,” she started out as grafitti written two romance feminism and developing advised and inspired her. says. “At the time, I was writing, and moved on to novels for Genesis Press, new curriculum, which “In my senior year, I president of the Black rap music, dee-jaying, and authored under the name she calls her dream job. w had three black women Students Association, and break dancing. It’s a cul- of Gwyneth professors, Linda Day, it was all about race for tural folk art form in Bolton: I’m Virginia Whately-Smith, me. This class opened which women were Gonna Make and a visiting professor my eyes about issues of involved from the begin- You Love who was a linguist in gender and widened my ning and are still involved the African, African political understanding.” on various levels.”

American, and Caribbean Meanwhile, Phillip Women, Pough says, PAGE Studies department. This Cioffari, professor of use that culture to claim a W33 was a pivotal moment for English, encouraged her public voice, a fact she THIRTY-THREE me,” Pough remembers. to apply for graduate wanted to highlight in the “It made me think not school, which she did, book. While a lot more only about graduate earning a master’s degree women rappers are record- school, but that I could from Northeastern ing songs these days, there do what they were doing. University in 1994, and is not the variety that was It crystallized the idea a doctorate from Miami in existence early in the for me.” University in Ohio in movement. She is also indebted 2000. “Most of the women to Leslie Agard-Jones, Along with scholarly are following the same dean of the College of interests, Pough had a pattern,” she reports. Education, Aubyn strong interest in music, “Many are scantily clad, Lewis, assistant director specifically hip hop and are using sexually music, and even consid- explicit lyrics, leading to

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 Michael Fitzgerald: Reconnecting to the University Through Service

LIGHT ow does a high- down companies, getting years I have been leading at the time, and I’m proud Hranking executive rid of the liabilities, and and managing multiple of my time here. It was the in charge of a global repatriating the money back functions, people, and best place for me at that company give some- to the parent company. divisions.” point in time.”

SPthing T back to his alma Fitzgerald’s unit manages Although no longer And this is what he mater? In the case of approximately $5 billion practicing accounting, he hopes to pass on to stu- Michael Fitzgerald ’78, he in CNA liabilities world- uses what he learned on dents during his term on joins the William Paterson wide with the assistance campus in his business life the Foundation board. University Foundation of one hundred and eighty today. “The discipline and “I want to improve the Board to help guide the people in four locations: understanding of finance, institution, the programs, futures of the next genera- New Jersey, New York, the fundamental elements and opportunities for stu- tion of University students. Chicago, and London. and training I received at dents at the University,” “I believe I can make Always intrigued by William Paterson are Fitzgerald states. “If I a contribution to the board dollars and numbers, always there in front of could give advice to stu- whether it’s through Fitzgerald earned an me,” he says. “A+ B=C dents here, it would be to contacts in business, or undergraduate degree in is a premise I’ve always encourage them to take MICHAEL FITZGERALD through my ability to go accounting. Believing followed. It is the business some financial classes. It’s out there and find people finance to be the driver of of finance, and that is at an important part of any who can support the Foun- continuing obligation to the business world, he the core of what I learned degree. I would like to see dation’s economic needs,” our policyholders, decided has built a solid career as at William Paterson.” the students of today get he says. “I think I can offer to form a single business a business executive work- Fitzgerald was a com- introduced to that and not a lot to that process.” unit (GRM) to manage its ing for just one company, muter student, working to find it out after ten or Fitzgerald is the presi- property and casualty CNA, for twenty-six years, full-time while attending fifteen years.” dent and CEO of Global run-off business,” he says. which is highly unusual in school full-time, and Fitzgerald believes Resource Management “I manage the disposition today’s business environ- subsequently didn’t have strongly in mentoring. (GRM), an international of the liabilities of the ment, where people often much time for extracur- Earlier in his career, he had company that manages products we have stopped leave their jobs to move ricular activities. a mentor who was very run-off businesses for offering to our customers. up in the corporate world. “I didn’t take full influential in his career. CNA Financial Corpora- If a claim occurs, we have “For the first half of advantage of William “This person opened up tion (CNA), a property and a continued obligation to my career, I had chief Paterson as a student,” he their world for me, helped casualty insurance business. pay it.” financial officer jobs,” says. “I had to work my me, supported me, and “About ten years ago, Another of GRM’s Fitzgerald remembers. way through school. As a showed me that the things CNA, in acknowledging a responsibilities is closing “For the last ten to fifteen commuter student, I didn’t that are difficult for me get connected to the insti- are the areas that I should tution, and didn’t get be working on,” he says. connected to the opportu- As a result, he’s nities available. I missed the involved in a mentoring Jennifer Riggins Named “Outstanding Senior” interaction and integration group at CNA, and is a of students who belong to board member with an ennifer Riggins, a May newspaper, during the United Nations Club, clubs and organizations organization called Inroads J2005 graduate of 2004-2005 academic year, receiving an award or that make up the college that provides opportunities William Paterson with a after previously holding honorable mention at atmosphere. That’s proba- to minority students. This bachelor’s degree in polit- positions as a staff writer four of the competitions bly one of my biggest is in addition to his work PAGE ical science, received the and managing editor. She she attended. career regrets, not accom- on the University’s Foun- W34 Alumni Association’s 2005 also served as the 2004 Named to the Society plishing that, but it’s also dation board. THIRTY-FOUR Outstanding Senior Award. Secretary-General of of Success and Leadership one of the reasons I want “I want to help stu- The award has been pre- William Paterson’s Middle and a participant in Col- to give something back. dents to be open to things sented annually by the School Model United lege Leadership New Joining the Foundation outside of their bound- association since 1962 to a Nations Program, which Jersey, she has been active board might be my recon- aries,” he says. “This is graduating senior based mentors and trains in several political cam- nection to the University.” the key to learning and on strong involvement in approximately two hun- paigns and community He earned his success moving forward. There are extracurricular activities, dred seventh and eighth outreach programs in even though he did not so many opportunities for demonstrated leadership grade Paterson public Paterson. Named for four attend a traditional busi- students today. They are ability, service to the school students to become years to the Dean’s List, ness school. “I’ve had a exposed to so much more University, and high aca- delegates representing she was inducted into Pi pretty successful business than I was. But they need demic standing. various nation-states of Sigma Alpha, the National career, and attending to have a balance in their Riggins, who graduated the United Nations and Political Science Honor William Paterson was part lives to realize what’s out magna cum laude, served culminates with a confer- Society. She is a resident of that success. If anything, there for them.” w as editor-in-chief of the ence at the University. of Prospect Park. w it made me work harder. Beacon, the University’s Riggins also participated It was what I could afford independent student in the University Model PT SP Alumna Administers Hobart Trust

hen Vanda DeVries men and women work- “The Hobarts are W’87, M.B.A. ’90, ing in the city’s silk mills an old Paterson fami- LIGHT joined PNC Bank in and one of the earliest ly,” DeVries says. 1973, she learned about day-care centers in the “They were generous the institution’s historic nation. people. The school is connection with the DeVries was fasci- successful, even now, family of Garret Hobart, nated by the connection and still supported by who originally owned the between her alma mater, the trust.” estate on which William the Hobarts, and the DeVries continues to Paterson has been located trust. She corresponded stay connected to the since 1951. with Elizabeth Hobart University through As vice president Kingsbury, the daughter donations to the Annual with PNC Bank Advisors, of Garret A. Hobart Jr., Fund, helping students DeVries administers the before her death last in a way similar to the trust established more year, visiting her in Hobart family’s philan- than one hundred years Florida and sending thropy with the Memo- ago by Jennie Tuttle newspaper clippings of rial Day Nursery. w Hobart, the wife of stories about Paterson Garret Hobart, to sup- she thought might be port the Memorial Day of interest to Mrs. Nursery in Paterson, Kingsbury. founded in 1887 to care VANDA DEVRIES for the children of the

Executive Council Adds Four New Members

he William Paterson served as vice president part of the Paterson bachelor’s degrees in Marilyn Mattei- TUniversity Alumni and controller of Yorx public school system. A African, African Ameri- Rabenhorst is a human Association Executive Electronics Corp. and as 1988 graduate of William can, and Caribbean resource consultant and Council has elected four a senior accountant for Paterson with a bachelor’s studies and history, she a realtor associate with new members to its ros- the City of Paterson. A degree in psychology, has previously worked as Special Properties, a ter. The governing body 1975 graduate of William Hannoush earned a a public school teacher in division of Brook Hollow that represents the Paterson with a bachelor’s master’s degree in coun- Paterson, in pharmaceuti- Group, Inc. in Saddle University’s more than degree in accounting, he seling /school guidance cal sales for Bristol-Myers River. She retired in 2004 50,000 alumni members, holds a master’s degree from Montclair State Squibb, and as director after a successful thirty- the Executive Council in business administra- University in 2000. The of marketing for Hospice year career in human includes thirty volunteers tion from Fairleigh recipient of a Governor’s Care Chicagoland. She resources, most recently who meet throughout Dickinson University. A Teacher Recognition holds a master’s degree as director of human the year. Their responsi- member of the Alumni Award in 1996, she also in philosophy and social resources for ARC- bilities include awarding Association’s Annual received the Educators science from Columbia Bergen and Passaic alumni scholarships and Fund Committee since Make a Difference University. She has Counties. A graduate of PAGE grants and alumni pro- 1999, Hamilton served Certificate from Kappa been inducted into the William Paterson with W35 gramming. The council as chair of the committee Delta Pi, the Interna- National Association of bachelor’s and master’s THIRTY-FIVE also reviews applications from 2000 to 2002 and tional Honor Society in Negro Business and degrees in English, she for regional and special was a member of the Education. She is a Professional Women and has pursued doctoral interest alumni chapters. Class of 1975’s twenty- resident of Wayne. 100 Black Women of studies at New York Uni- The new members fifth reunion committee Khadijah Livingston Long Island, and was versity. An avid opera are Douglas Hamilton in 2000. He and his wife, is the founder and named a Black Woman singer, she has appeared ’75, Rola Hannoush ’88, Carole, reside in Midland president of KAL Inter- History Maker by the in a number of opera and Khadijah Livingston Park; their son, Douglas national Marketing Caribbean American theatrical productions in ’73, and Marilyn Mattei- Jr., is a 2002 graduate of Specialists, a distributor Chamber of Commerce. the tri-state area. She Rabenhorst ’69, M.A.’70. the University. of custom-imprinted She and her husband, and her husband, David, Charles Livingston ’72, reside in Woodcliff Douglas Hamilton is Rola Hannoush has items, executive gifts, w the controller for Victory been a special education seasonal and religious reside in New Jersey. Lake. Box Corporation, a posi- resource center teacher cards, and trophies and They are the parents of tion he has held since since 1991 at Renaissance awards. A 1973 graduate five children. 1995. Previously, he School No. 1 in Paterson, of William Paterson with

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 19 seventy 3 with the faculty to integrate of the National Association for technology into the curricu- the Advancement of Colored JAMES CAPPARO, a member lum…SUSAN (KINDER) People, was interviewed by the of Atari, Inc.’s board of directors

LIGHT TURCONI’S acrylic artwork, New Jersey Education Associa- since February 2002, has been Read This, was displayed at the tion about his analysis on equity appointed the company’s Tampa Museum of Art in in public education fifty years president and chief executive Florida from July 25 through after the landmark case of officer…KHADIJAH A. September 26, 2004. Brown vs. Board of LIVINGSTON, president of

SP T Education...EILEEN SCOTT, 19 plus... KAL International, was honored former chief executive officer of by Macy’s during Black History Pathmark Stores, Inc. in Month as an African-American 19 seventy 5 Carteret, addressed the New business leader...MIKE ROBERT ANDRIULLI is a Among America’s Teachers for York Metro Group of Network 19 forty 4 MULCHAHY, M.A. ’77, was landscape artist and associate the second consecutive year… of Executive Women in January. MICHAEL LOBOSCO, who featured in an article concerning professor of art at Millersville JOHN STRAUB II, a delegate She spoke about the challenges retired from teaching in 1983, his profession as a personal and University, PA. His recent work, from the Passaic County Educa- and rewards of being a female was a lecturer at the New Jersey business life coach. During the Direct From Nature, was dis- tion Association, was re-elected executive…FATHER ROBERT Science Convention. During the interview he talked about people played at the Peninsula Gallery to the Teacher Pension Annuity WISNIEFSKI celebrated the convention he shared with other over age forty who are making in Lewes, DE…DR. JOANNE Fund of New Jersey. Straub is twenty-fifth anniversary of his educators innovative and effective career transitions and how his PATTERSON ROBINSON, also a member of Phi Delta ordination to the priesthood in techniques he used to teach math business is focused on meeting author of “Urinary Incontinence Kappa and is an active board April. Fr. Wisniefski has served during his career. the needs of these individuals in in Men with Parkinson’s Dis- member of the Westminster St. Joseph’s parish in Paterson the “third age”…CHERYL ease,” presented her research at Presbyterian Church in Paterson. since 1986. ROSKOWINSKI, M.A. ’85, the National Congress on the who has taught for twenty-eight 19 sixty State of the Science in years at the fifth grade level, Nursing Research…SUSAN RICHIE ADUBATO, M.A. ’70, 19 sixty 9 was presented the Governor’s (KELLIHER) UNGARO, the 19 seventy 7 was hired as head coach of the Teacher of the Year award for SUSAN (SHELHAMER) former editor-in-chief of Family DONNA SELLITTI WNBA Washington Mystics in Midland School of Rochelle BROWNING, M.ED. ’73, Circle magazine, was featured ANTONOW, a jazz pianist, per- April 2005. Adubato brings Park. The award is given in earned recognition for her devo- in Irish America’s Annual formed at the Ringwood Public nineteen years of experience as a recognition of providing an envi- tion to the students, teachers, Business 100. Library in November 2004 coach in the NBA to the team. ronment that inspires learning and staff at the Selden Landing …DOUGLAS SCHERZER, and the utilization of effective Elementary School in Leesburg, police chief in Morris Plains, has and creative teaching tools and VA when she was honored by her worked on strengthening rela- techniques…ELEANORE 19 seventy 6 19 sixty 3 colleagues as Loudoun County tionships among police officers SHAFFER, M.ED. ’73, who HUELL (ED) ALBERTY was MARTIN ALBOUM presented Principal of the Year. and the community by featuring recently retired from the named vice president and man- a lecture at the Maurice M. Pine the officers on baseball cards Blairstown school district where ager of Hopewell Valley Commu- Public Library in Fair Lawn. distributed to the residents of she was a learning disabilities nity Bank’s loan production The focus of the presentation the town. He spoke about his 19 seventy teacher/consultant and director office in Cranbury. He brings was politics and faith, including program in an interview with the VENICE HARVEY, M.A., for special services, is currently more than twenty years of a discussion of Sam Harris’s Daily Record. hired as one of the first African serving in Newton on the boards experience to the position… book, The End of Faith. He was American teachers in Passaic in of education for Hampton Town- PATRICIA BURROUGHS, a invited by the Humanists of 1953, was recognized for paving ship and Kittatinny Regional real estate representative for North Jersey. the way for other black educators High School. Shaffer was the Weichert of Hamburg, was com- 19 seventy 8 in an article in the Herald first person to be honored by the mended for leading the office in JOSEPH FERRANTE, M.A. News…JUDITH STEIN, an art Hampton Township Educational resale marketed listings…EDNA ’80, police chief of North Hale- 19 sixty 4 educator, recently displayed her Foundation for her exceptional CADMUS received the Nurse don, received the D.A.R.E. Chief JAMES NEWQUIST, a retired works at the University Medical service as an educator and Executive Award presented by of the Year Award in honor of educator, combining his love for Center in Princeton. board member. the Organization of Nurse his dedication and service to the children and teaching, along with Executives in New Jersey. This program and the community… his lifelong interest in science honor acknowledged her leader- K. CASEY LAROSA, a social ship skills and contributions to studies teacher in Montclair, was and nature, joined the board of 19 seventy 1 19 seventy 4 directors of the Community the overall development of the selected as a 2004 recipient of RUSSELL TITUS, M.A., BERNADETTE BOTBYL, Children’s Museum in Dover. nursing program at Englewood the $10,000 Disneyland Teacher retired as assistant superintendent M.ED. ’84, an educator in New Hospital. She is also the co-cre- Award. She was one of 150,000 after thirty years of service in the Jersey for thirty years, is currently ator of the Cadmus/Vreeland nominees. PAGE Ridgewood school system where serving as president of the State Nursing Scholarship...KEITH W36 19 sixty 6 he began his career as a teacher. VFW Auxiliary. She joined the JONES, president of the New THIRTY-SIX Ladies Auxiliary in 1980 under NORMAN TRACY joined the Jersey State Conference branch 19 seventy-nine staff of Villa Julie College in the eligibility of her husband JUNE NICHOLSON was hired Stevenson, MD as director of 19 seventy 2 Patrick, a Vietnam veteran… educational technology. PATRICIA (BALDWIN) as a special education teacher by DONALD LARSON, a twenty- HONSZER was ordained a the Ridgewood school district. five-year veteran of the banking deacon of the Moravian Church, She brings twenty years of expe- industry, was appointed vice North America. She is now the rience in the field to her new 19 sixty 8 president of the commercial pastor of Fry Valley Moravian position…NOREEN ANN GEORGETTE real estate department at Church in Ohio…IRIS (BOYLE) PRICE is assistant to (KLEMCHALK) LENTZ The Provident Bank…PAT (WECHLING) KARNAS was the director of Project Help Cri- was recently accepted into the (O’NEILL) VASILIK was the appointed principal of Apshawa sis Center, a non-profit organiza- Indiana University chapter of recipient of a merchandising Elementary School by the West tion in Naples, FL…ROBIN Phi Delta Kappa, a professional grant, the only one awarded in Milford Board of Education… SCHWARTZ, whose photogra- organization for educators, and the country, from the American JULIE SONNENSCHEIN phy has been shown in major will be listed in its centennial Library Association. The grant is joined the faculty of the Chapin museums, exhibited her pho- edition. Lentz, who serves as a for a traveling display that will School in Princeton as a part- tographs of stray dogs in the delegate to the Teacher Pension give her the opportunity to bring time technology collaborator. In Hoboken Historical Museum. PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITED BY Annuity Fund of New Jersey, has books to different elementary this position she will work Schwartz, who is best known also been named to Who’s Who schools in the city of Clifton. ROBIN SCHWARTZ PT SP for her photography of animals, recognition of his contributions 19 eighty 5 19 eighty 9 in the Arab/Muslim has embarked on a new subject, as both a player and coach… community… VIRGINIA AL GRECO, M.A., is the city ANDREW CHOFFO is the her daughter Amelia. Her series, JANE UNHJEM, M.ED., is (VITALE) PICCOLO, manager for Clifton. He brings director of human resources for Amelia Photographs, was on the assistant superintendent for C.P.A., was promoted to twenty-seven years of local Roseland Property Co., a devel- display at the Johnson & Johnson curriculum and instruction for senior manager for Withum- government experience to the oper of luxury apartments and LIGHT World Headquarters Gallery the Goshen, NY school district… Smith+Brown, one of the position…KEITH and KEVIN homes…TRISHA FISHEL- from September 20 through THEODORE (TED) WASKY largest accounting and con- PLACE, keyboardists and vocal MAN, M.ED., a former educator November 15, 2004. was named supervisor of the sulting firms in New Jersey. arrangers for Jazzy Bear & and administrator, joined the FBI’s Cleveland, OH office Friends Band, performed at the staff of the Glen Rock Public where part of his focus will be 40th Annual Art in the Park Library as the children’s librari- counterterrorism. 19 eighty show at Van Saun County Park, an…FRANK LAROCCA, a BARRY BARDONE is the Paramus…PAUL STABILE is matrimonial and divorce lawyer author of No Choice: Andrew the business administrator and with the firm Spinato, Novem- Kimble in the Revolutionary 19 eighty 2 secretary for the school board in ber, Conte & LaRocca P.C, was War, which was published and CHRIS DEXTER assumed Bergen County’s office of the named to the list of “The Ten distributed last summer in paper- general management of Condit’s department of education. Leaders Age 45 and Under of back. The book chronicles events Toyota World of Newton, in Matrimonial and Divorce Law that took place during the Revo- addition to his current position of Northern New Jersey” for lutionary War in the Bergen and as general manager of their Ford 19 eighty 6 2004…CARMINE MAR- Passaic county area…STEVE division…LESLEY WEINER, CHIONDA, M.B.A. ’95, CEO LORRAINE LAPIETRA, LONEGAN, mayor of Bogota, M.ED., recently recognized as and president of Spectrum for M.ED. ’93, won re-election to VIRGINIA (VITALE) PICCOLO was one of seven candidates who New Jersey Association of Living, a not-for-profit organi- Maywood’s town council. LaPi- ran for the Republication nomi- Women Business Owners’ zation providing services for etra works as a media specialist at nation for governor in New Jer- Business Woman of the Year, was disabled adults, has been com- Hackensack Middle School. sey…RONNI NOCHIMSON, interviewed by the Daily Record. mended for being instrumental M.A., was hired by the Passaic The article focused on her com- to the growth of the organization. 19 ninety 1 County sheriff ’s department to pany, Heritage Financial Advisors, The company has expanded its MICHAEL D. manage the implementation of and her personal and business 19 eighty 7 programs under his guidance as RINDERKNECHT is Glen the first responders identification dossier…JAMES WYNNE, MAUREEN (MAZZEO) the company’s first chief execu- Rock’s school business adminis- card program and to further M.ED., directed Haydn’s The DECICCO, a certified public tive officer. trator. During his tenure he plans develop community outreach Creation at Ridgewood United accountant for WithumSmith+ to address the issue of high and service initiatives…JEFF Methodist Church, where he has Brown in New Brunswick, one of property taxes and its impact on PINES headlined the twenty- been organist and director for the largest accounting and con- 19 ninety schools. He served in a similar fifth anniversary season of Music two-and-a-half years. position for the River Vale and sulting firms in New Jersey, was ERIC ALEXANDER, a at Noon, a concert series in Mor- Oradell school districts… promoted to senior manager… renowned jazz tenor saxophonist, ristown…JOYCE POWELL, PAULA GWIAZDA RISOLI, KEITH SILVERSTEIN, an performed with his quartet in the M.A., newly elected president of M.ED. ’96, and her husband 19 eighty 3 oral and maxillofacial surgeon Marblehead, MA Summer Jazz the New Jersey Education Asso- Mark announce the birth of practicing in Paoli, PA, was listed Concert and in the 2004 Jazz in ciation, was recognized as a dis- PAUL BREMBT was sworn in their daughter, Milaina Grace, as a runner-up for the best den- the Garden Series in the Alice tinguished alumna by as captain of the South Plainfield on April 21, 2004…LAURA tists in his area of specialization. Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Cumberland County College police department, where he will SANTORO was appointed to This list appeared in the June Garden at the Newark Museum. where she received her associate’s take on the role of commander the Regional Heart and Vascular 2004 edition of Main Line Today. He also performed at the twenty- degree. Her portrait will be dis- of the service division…PAUL Center at Danbury Hospital, CT second annual Jazzfest at the played with those of other hon- FADER, featured in an article as nurse manager of the 10 University of Wisconsin, in a orees at the college’s in the Bergen Record, spoke of Tower Cardiac Step Down Unit. centennial tribute to Coleman Distinguished Alumni Hall of his journey from a janitor and During the past ten years of her Hawkins at Dizzy’s Club Coca- Fame…RICHARD SLADE, a security guard to his current career she has taught nursing Cola, and made his debut at physical education teacher for appointment as chief counsel to students and served as a clinical Shanghai Jazz, a Zagat Award- eleven years in the Franklin New Jersey Acting Governor research coordinator. Prior to her winning club located in Madison. Lakes school district, was one Richard Codey…ANGELA new position, she was nursing In addition, Alexander released of three educators selected to MUSELLA is the health officer care coordinator in the intensive his latest album, Dead Center… represent the district in the for the Northwest Health care unit at Sound Shore TOMMY DELUTZ JR., who 2003-04 Governor’s Teacher Commission and is the borough Medical Center…MARGARET ranked twenty-first on the Recognition Program… representative for seven towns (PEGGY) STEWART was 2003-04 Professional Bowling HELENE (PIWNICA) in Bergen County, addressing selected as the 2004 New Jersey Association (PBA) tour, made TRACHTENBERG was named such issues as communicable MAUREEN (MAZZEO) DECICCO Teacher of the Year. After gradu- personal appearances in Middle- PAGE 2004 Teacher of the Year for the diseases and age enforcement ating she received her master’s in for the sale of tobacco. town and Chester to give bowling W37 Hawthorne school district. liberal arts with a concentration tips and sign autographs… THIRTY-SEVEN in multiculturalism and later BASIMA MUSTAFA, recently was chosen as a fellow in Yale 19 eighty 8 appointed to the Arab and Mus- 19 eighty 4 University’s Program in Interna- 19 eighty 1 SAM DEDIO and IRENE lim advisory committee to the HAROLD ENGOLD JR. tional Education (PIER). Her MARY L. GRUCCIO, M.A., (VITALE) DEDIO, M.A.’92, New Jersey Attorney General, retired after twenty-eight years personal and educational travel was re-elected to the Cumber- announce the birth of their was born in Jordan and raised in of service to the Haledon police has provided a multicultural and land County Freeholder Seat, daughter, Ava Alexandra, on July Paterson where she is currently a department…MARY T. global perspective to her students serving as chairman of public 29, 2004…BILL STEWART, a teacher. Mustafa was moved to KUNERT, M.ED., was one of at Vernon Township High works…CAROL LUSCHER renowned and accomplished jazz action following the events that four teachers in the Ringwood School. Stewart has also been joined the staff of Sussex Bank as drummer, was interviewed culminated in the Iraq war. Her school district to be honored in instrumental in tailoring Vernon’s assistant vice president and recently by Modern Drummer. civic involvement has led her to the Passaic County/Governor’s curriculum to be inclusive of a director of training. She will be The article highlighted many of join various Arab-American orga- Teacher Recognition Program. broader world view. As Teacher responsible for the implementa- his past and present accomplish- nizations in an effort to be a voice This is one of many accolades of the Year she receives a six- tion and development of an in- ments including the recently she has received during her month paid sabbatical to collabo- house training program…ED released CD, EnRoute, on which thirty-four-year teaching career. rate with other educators and PAIVA was inducted into the he is featured with two legendary pursue teaching initiatives as well Sussex Sports Hall of Fame in jazz musicians. as speaking engagements.

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 19 ninety 2 Haskell School in Wanaque… tarist for the all-girl band, Lasciv- 19 ninety 8 English curriculum…JOSEPH TOMMIE PATTERSON, a ious Biddies, performed at the LEONE is the assistant vice RICHARD LUTHER JUDY BADY was recently fea- former Kennedy High School Pine Loft in Berlin, NY to kick president/branch manager of DODSON and KATH- tured in an article in the Herald

LIGHT basketball player, participated in off the group’s New England Lakeland Bank in Little Falls. He LEEN (HAWLEY) DOD- News, which focused on what it a “throwback” basketball tourna- tour. The group, known for its brings twenty-four years of bank- SON ’93 announce the birth has taken to establish herself as a ment at Paterson Catholic High unconventional, eclectic style of ing experience to the company. of Jake Luther on April 13, vocal artist in the industry School. The games brought music, released a second album, 2004. He joins his sisters through self-marketing. Bady has together former basketball players Get Lucky, which is available on Emma Rose and Nicole performed at such venues as the

SP T from the Paterson area who Amazon.com or via their Web Faith…ALYSSA (FELD- Oskar Schindler Performing Arts 2 thousand played at various schools during site, www.biddies4ever.com… MAN) FERSTENFELD and Center in West Orange and The the ’80s and ’90s. The proceeds DANIEL METRO is the infor- JOSE ANTUNES graduated her husband Mitchell announce Kennedy Center in Washington, were used to start a summer foot- mation systems site manager for from the Essex County Police the birth of their son, Steven DC. Recently, she appeared with ball program…DOMENICK Cedar Crest Village, a facility for Academy…DEBORAH Noah, on February 8, 2004… Billy Harper in Szczecina, STAMPONE, an attorney and middle-income people over sixty- ARMENO is the recreation MICHAEL LOMBARDI is Poland. Her debut CD, Blackbird, president of the Haledon town two years old in Pompton Plains. director in Florham Park. She the vice president of sales, East has received numerous accolades council, was named to the board Metro’s responsibilities include previously served as recreation Coast region, for Undertone in various jazz magazines includ- of trustees of the New Jersey information systems support and coordinator in Hopatcong in Networks, a provider of online ing a three-star review in Down State Bar Association (NJSBA). management…MICHAEL J. addition to coaching recreational advertising services. His resume Beat magazine…JILL (MORAN) The forty-three-member board OWENS, a six-year veteran of sports as well as the creation and includes such companies as STAUFFER, M.ED., was the manages the affairs and property the Cranbury police force, was implementation of programs and Bloomberg.com, Imedia Commu- recipient of the 2004 Milken of the NJSBA. Stampone is promoted to sergeant. He assumes activities for the area’s senior nications, Inc., and Darcy & Family Foundation National currently president of the William the responsibility of conducting population…LINDA HOGAN Darcy Advertising and Public Educator Award. A teacher in the Paterson University Alumni and leading investigations as received her doctor of optometry Relations, where he served in Wyckoff district for fifteen years, Association. well as other managerial duties… degree from Pennsylvania Col- various sales and sales manage- she is credited with instilling in TIMOTHY S. PLOTTS was lege. She plans to practice in the ment positions including vice her students a love of learning by selected by the Morris Plains northern New Jersey area… president of sales...JILL tailoring the lessons to their indi- Board of Education as principal DELORES SCHANEN, M.A., SUMMERS, whose grand- 19 ninety 5 vidual needs. She was among one and special services director of its recently had her artworks, mother died from cancer when hundred educators honored with CHRISTOPHER BUDINICH, Borough School. His previous Thought Fragments, exhibited at she was a child, raised $1,800 this prestigious award during a president of Spotlight Theatre experience as an educator includes Gallery 110 North in Wisconsin. for the Avon Breast Cancer ceremony in Washington, DC… Company, a chapter of the positions as assistant principal at The show included such pieces as Foundation during the twenty- MEREDITH OLARTE was William Paterson University Kittatinny Regional High School Moving Nuns III and Fragments. six-mile fund-raising event held promoted to community relations Alumni Association, announced and fifth grade teacher at Richard Her works have previously been in October 2004. Summers is a director at Home Care Options… that the company received eight Butler Middle School. displayed at galleries in the technology coordinator for the nominations for the original stage BRIAN TIMMONS and his Milwaukee area. Newark Board of Education. production of Poems From Under wife Megan announce the birth the Pool Table. Spotlight Theatre of their second daughter, Alanna, 19 ninety 7 who joins sister, Kaleigh. Company received two Perry 2 thousand 1 19 ninety 3 Awards for Outstanding Original SCOTT CARLSON, a Rutgers Production of a Play and Out- law school student, worked as a SHAINA LEWIS, a social TOMOKO OHNO, a composer standing Sound Design from the summer associate at Riker Danzig studies teacher at Clifton High and jazz pianist, performed at the New Jersey Association of Com- Scherer Hyland and Perretti School, received the October 2004 Cornerstone Café & Bistro in munity Theaters, which recog- LLP in Morristown…GLENN Feature Teacher Award. It was Metuchen and Shanghai Jazz of nizes excellent amateur theatre. FOCARINO was appointed given in recognition of her work Madison. Her quartet kicked off The production was selected from principal of Hilltop School in with the Teen Institute of the Teaneck’s First Night festivities among two hundred shows. Lodi where he attended school Garden State (TIGS) program. with a performance at the Teaneck Recently the theatre company as a youth. One of his goals is to TIGS is a program aimed at Public Library. She was featured staged the comedy Mr. 80% as a institute an anti-bullying program educating adolescents, teens, and with the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni fundraising event for the Yvonne modeled after the one he helped young adults to remain drug-free All-Stars Band and has a CD, E. Parisen Memorial Scholarship to successfully implement at the through workshops, presentations, Natural Woman, available through for the Alumni Association’s middle school…JEREMY and discussion groups… ADAM Amazon.com. Nursing Chapter…BETH HEINZE was promoted to head JILL (MORAN)STAUFFER,M.ED.’98 G. SMITH joined the faculty of PROL joined the real estate coach of the Cougars, Chatham Glen Ridge High School as a team at RE/MAX Properties High School’s field hockey chemistry teacher. Previously, he 19 ninety 4 Unlimited in Sparta as a sales team…KEVIN VALLUZZI, taught physical science in Wayne. KRISTIN (HASENSTAB) associate. She has been a real owner of A&B Fitness, is a per- 19 ninety 9 estate professional for more than sonal trainer and a licensed fit- PAGE BOYCE and her husband MARY HASSENPLUG, M.A., Christopher announce the birth of five years and in 2001 was named ness-by-phone coach…MARC 2 thousand 3 W38 was one of four teachers selected to the Weichert Million Dollar WILLIAMS, national brand THIRTY-EIGHT their third child, Emily Kristin, from among eighty-two nominees LAUREN BREIER was hired as Sales Club. director for Champs Sports, was on October 11, 2004. She joins to be honored by Princeton wellness director for the YMCA recently honored in The Network brothers Christopher and Ian… University during its 2005 com- in Sussex County… GARY Journal as part of a third wave of ROB DAVIS, who began the suc- mencement ceremony. She was CALTABILOTTA has joined under-forty young black women cessful football program at Brack- 19 ninety 6 recognized as an outstanding New England Financial of North man Middle School in Barnegat, and men paving the way in their ANAT FORT entertained audi- secondary school teacher in New Jersey as a financial representa- assumed the position of football profession. A reception was held ences with her own compositions Jersey. Hassenplug has been a tive…ADAM R. JAEGER, after coach for the Bengals at Barnegat in honor of these aspiring at the Puffin Cultural Forum in teacher at High Point Regional completing a new agent training High School…KAREN A. individuals at the Alfred Lerner Teaneck. She is an accomplished High School since 1984. In the program for Century 21, was LAKE, M.ED., superintendent of Hall at Columbia University last pianist and composer who has classroom her aim is to stimulate hired by Gross & Jansen Realtors the Hillsborough school district, summer. He was also appointed performed around the world with independent thinking among in Sparta. was recently listed as one of eight to the board of directors of The the Anat Fort Trio and recently her students by fostering an women superintendents in the Children’s Dream Fund, a non- continued on page 40 signed with ECM records… environment where each student Morris County school district. profit organization. DAVID KEMLER joined the is encouraged to offer his or her Her career in education included staff of Tekmark Global as an opinion. In addition, she is positions as a fifth-grade teacher account executive...AMANDA working on a project to integrate in Irvington and principal of (MONACO) HENKIN, a gui- a “cyber classroom” into the PT SP LIGHT

2001 Lori L. Berish, M.B.A. to Christopher R. Kotes October 2004

Christina S. Berian, M.A. to Richard J. Pelosky 1989 Eric W. Holgerson 1999 June 2004 to Lisa Ann Annitti ’99 Charles Terrone Robert Fraser CAROL SHARAR, M.ED. ’03 to Deborah Dinkle May 2004 to Crystal Ivory Christopher Dalby AND ROBERT LUTZ October 2004 April 2005 to Sarah Augusta Barba ’02 Kelli-Ann Mallek March 2004 1991 to Reese Riley Michael T. Gavin 2003 Michelle L. Perrone October 2004 to Laurie Roth Melissa DiMaggio Susan M. Antonetti to John P. Latko Jr. September 2004 to Oliver Ruiz to Albert A. Pelosi September 2004 Amanda Wagner Monaco November 2003 June 2004 to Andrey Alexandrovich Henkin Michael Greenwood 1992 April 2005 to Shannon Neville ’03 Lori Ann Fisch Meredith Duddy, M.S. Marlena Rickard June 2004 to Anthony J. Romano to Josh Handt to Lee Beaton 1997 September 2004 June 2004 July 2004 Michael Vincent Bonaccolto Robert McCorry to Pamela Ann Szeker to Jamie Lynn Kealy Julia M. Gomez Stephanie Dykovitz Robert Sangiamo October 2004 May 2004 to Andrew C. Wardell to Steven Abbott to Monique Lyn Ribando August 2004 August 2004 July 2004 Michael Kelly Dettlinger Nova L. Osowsky to Karen Ann Kenny to James J. Vazquez Jennifer Ann Griffith Nicole Freeman, M.S. 1993 June 2004 2004 to Dr. Michael Philip Esposito to John Fritzky Tanya Ellen Catini May 2004 August 2004 to Louis Mark Trento Steven P. Fulse Rosemary Elizabeth Ramos January 2005 to Kathleen Ann Ganz to David Enrique Ortega Paul Jenne Kathleen Higgins March 2004 April 2004 to Krista Hawthorne to Sean Couillard Janine Marie Ferrante January 2005 June 2004 to Lawrence Peter Varhaul Jaray E. Harvey Scott Ryan September 2004 to Kevin Gillespie to Tara Palmieri Laurin Pecoraro Heather Laratta November 2004 June 2004 to Joseph Apruzzese to Joseph Rowens Christopher D. Florio July 2004 October 2004 to Jodi L. Smigelsky Jeremy Heinze John Sangis April 2004 to Courtney Reese to Teresa Silvers Cheryl Pinglora Donna Lindlsey, M.Ed. September 2004 May 2004 to Michael Rourke to Matthew Strianse Lisa Ilchisin April 2004 August 2004 to R. Scott MacClements Jill Lombardo 2000 June 2004 to Mark Melito Allison DeBernardis Steven A. Teitsma Christina Petillo July 2004 to Marc Cabezas to Melissa I. Celentano to John Dilkes Edward Oldak December 2004 October 2004 May 2004 to Katherine McDermott Jill E. Tarullo August 2004 to Jason Barnes Jesse William Girkesh 2002 Carol Sharar, M.Ed. June 2004 to Melissa Ann Manni Maria Cappuccia to Robert Lutz 1994 July 2004 to Paul Tommasi July 2004 Anthony Salvatore Arabia, 1998 September 2004 M.B.A. Colleen Ann Adams Kristian B. Hubbard Catherine Marie Starick to Lynn Ella Niles to Craig Alan Hook to Sarah C. Frank Janice Lynn Davidson to Michael Donald Costa January 2005 August 2004 June 2004 to Michael Todd Dolce February 2004 PAGE July 2004 W39 1995 David F. Anderson Brian Patrick O’Sullivan Adrienne A. Sviderski THIRTY-NINE Alice Donlin to Lucille Anne Campana to Katherine Quinn Murray Margaret L. Duff to Thomas J. Carroll to James McDermott July 2004 October 2004 to Christopher T. Castelluccio July 2004 July 2004 February 2004 Derek R. Clark Michele Popola 2004 Pamela Sue Tice to Joanna V. Rock to Serafino Berardi Kristine A. Frangipane Thomas D’Angelo III to Michael J. Solovay September 2004 March 2004 to Justin A. Deppner to Kimberly McGrath July 2004 July 2004 October 2004 Nicole Collura Alexandra L. Patrick 1996 to Louis Magliarditti to Keith F. Knippenberg Paul R. French Jr. Jaclyn Philipson Yariv Cohen July 2004 July 2004 to Jennifer Lynn Davis to Ryan Zinck to Ronit Ben Ze’ev June 2004 November 2004 June 2004 Tracie Matalucci Angela Scaturro to James Kennison to Anthony Ciaccio Nicole C. Hiller Richard Thomas Scholz Jr. Jill Daniels May 2004 July 2004 to John H. Borie Jr. to Kristen Lynn Saso to David Mitchell August 2004 October 2004 July 2004 Stuart Zissu, M.A. Keri Van Lenten to Bernadine Chin to Shawn Frawley June 2004 November 2004

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 50th Year Reunion: A Rewarding Experience be part of the memory 19 plus... book. These question- continued from page 38 naires told of the careers LIGHT By Dale Dreisbach ’55 wonderful three-day cel- affair, and assign tasks and family events of the ebration from May 15 to for the month. Our major past half-century. On t all began on a hot 17, 2005. goals were to maximize 2 thousand 4 the other hand, we were August day in I thoroughly enjoyed attendance, encourage KATHERINE BONILLA was I disappointed that some SP2004. T A message on working with former support for a class schol- one of twenty people sworn in as of the people we looked new volunteers for AmeriCorps my voice mail from classmates Pauline arship fund, and create a forward to seeing would in Paterson. During her year of Audrey Bonaparte- (Schneider) Gikas, Joan memory book for the not be able to attend. service she will work at her Watts, assistant director (Sojka) Gusciora, enjoyment of alumni and alma mater, Paterson Catholic The Reunion Week- of alumni relations, Eleanor (Stegemoeller) their families. We sent High School…STEPHEN end itself was a wonder- invited me to serve on Redfearn, and Doris out correspondence to CRAWFORD is an art director ful experience: renewing for Joselove-Filson Advertising, the 50th Year Reunion (Smith) Seale, along Class of 1955ers, keep- old friendships, revisiting Inc. He received the 2003 Art Committee. I called in with Audrey, who pro- ing them abreast of our Directors Club of New Jersey the vastly expanded my acceptance and start- vided wise counsel and progress, soliciting their Graphic Design Award while campus, and reveling in ed on a ten-month pro- support services. suggestions, and enlist- working for Will Whiteley as a the excitement of the graphic designer…CHERYL ject that would be We met once a ing their aid in locating commencement activities DUNKIEL is supervisor of the marked by emotional month to plan our over- missing classmates. for the Class of 2005. gifted and talented programs highs and pleasant sur- all strategy, outline the We were elated when for the Westfield public schools. The featured events prises, culminating in a details of the three-day we located a missing Bringing several years of experi- included an evening classmate and saddened ence with other gifted and tal- banquet at a picturesque ented programs to the position, when we learned a person campus site on Sunday; she will work with other educa- who had been a vibrant tors to ensure the incorporation campus tours followed presence on campus of effective strategies into the by participating in the was incapacitated or school system for gifted and Class of 2005 Senior talented students…ITAY deceased. Send-Off dinner on GOREN, an accomplished As we approached Monday; and being hon- classical pianist and accompanist, the month of May, we performed at the Mahwah Public ored guests at the Class were delighted to receive Library to a standing-room-only of 2005 commencement donations to the Schol- crowd. Goren was born in Israel followed by a farewell where he composed pieces for a arship Fund and reser- luncheon on Tuesday. ballet and a symphony orchestra vations for the campus …SOTERIOS GEORGHIOU, I found participation activities. We also enjoyed with three of his neighbors, on the Reunion Com- reviewing the returned received eleven medals and the mittee to be an exhila- James Corrado Amateur Wine- personal information rating experience. If you maker of the Year award in questionnaires that would have an opportunity to Corrado’s sixth annual amateur winemaking contest. A self- ENJOYING LUNCH AT THE ALUMNI HOUSE FOLLOWING serve William Paterson COMMENCEMENT ARE (SEATED, L. TO R.) DOLORES taught winemaker, Georghiou University on a voluntary (MENDELLO) SHEPTOCK, MARIE (PARISI) MOORE, specializes in such blends as white malvoise and sangiovese DORIS (SMITH) SEALE, ELEANOR (STEGEMOELLER) basis, I recommend that w red. He received two gold medals REDFEARN, JOAN (SOJKA) GUSCIORA, (STANDING, L. you do it! for these wines and a silver medal TO R.) GRACE (DAVENPORT) SCHAUS, ALICE (BLAIR) for his grappa… NICHOLAS FORBES, DALE DREISBACH, FREDERICK GUSCIORA, T. GUARDABASCO, M.ED., is CONNIE (WHITEHEAD) MCCABE, GWEN (GILMORE) a guidance counselor at Heritage GRACE (DAVENPORT) SCHAUS, ALICE MALATESTA, AND RAE ANN (BALDINO) JANDRIS Middle School in Livingston (BLAIR) FORBES, ELEANOR (STEGE- …ANDREW GUTAUSKAS is MOELLER EDFEARN STANDING PAGE ) R , ( ) on the road to a successful career W40 AND GWEN (GILMORE) MALATESTA in jazz. The Southington Observer FORTY AT THE EVENING BANQUET included a feature on Gutauskas, who has performed with well- known artists such as Slide Hampton, Jim McNeely, and Bill Goodman. Gutauskas is continuing his jazz studies at The Juilliard School…JILL NITKINAS, a math teacher at West Milford High School, pro- vided the inspiration for one of her honor students to enter and win the Trig-Star Award. This national competition is sponsored LOOKING OVER PHOTOS AND MEMENTOES FROM THEIR TIME ON CAM- by the National Society of Pro- PUS ARE (SEATED, L. TO R.) ELEANOR (STEGEMOELLER) REDFEARN, LIL- fessional Surveyors…KAELA LIAN (BOYAJIAN) CHAPIAN, GWEN (GILMORE) MALATESTA, (STANDING, QUINCE was one of the musi- cians invited to perform at an L. TO R.) DOLORES (MENDELLO) SHEPTOCK, MARIE (PARISI) MOORE, CLASS OF 1955 MEMBERS JAMES MEISTERICH (SECOND FROM RIGHT) JUDY LINDER, PAULINE (SCHNEIDER) GIKAS, JAMES MEISTERICH, GRACE AND DALE DREISBACH (FAR RIGHT) WITH THEIR SPOUSES PATRICIA MEIS- (DAVENPORT) SCHAUS, AND ALICE (BLAIR) FORBES TERICH (FAR LEFT) AND JEAN DREISBACH (SECOND FROM LEFT) PT SP annual banquet held at Rutgers to honor exceptional black women…SHARYL SALEMME is an elementary support teacher for the Summit school district IN MEMORIAM LIGHT …JENNIFER SCULLY was appointed to the Hawthorne ’29 BLANCHE (GOETSCHIUS) ’62 NORMAN MARTINA ’71 KATHLEEN L. (OATES) BULLOCH ’78 JOSEPH LABADIA COPELAND, M.A. ’61 Brookside, NJ Anaheim, CA Gasper, GA Board of Education by a unani- Clifton, NJ May 2005 May 2004 April 2005 mous vote from the board. Scully October 2004 is the youngest member on the HELEN (DILIBERTI) TEN BROEKE SHIRLEY (FRIEDMAN) DVOSKIN YONEKO (TAJITSU) NASH THERESE (MARINI) DICELLO Franklin Lakes, NJ New York, NY San Diego, CA board…TYSHAWN SOREY, Naples, FL January 2005 November 2004 November 2004 a rising young jazz performer, May 2004 was interviewed by the Daily ’63 LOIS (RIPATRAZONE) DONOVAN FRANK J. REPASY ’79 KANDACE M. (ANTONICK) Record in Morristown…JAIME ’35 MARY M. DYKES Cranford, NJ Newton, NJ HOWE Glen Rock, NJ April 2005 June 2004 Hawthorne, NJ TUCKER is the full-time dis- February 2005 August 2004 patcher for the Matawan Police ’65 GRACE (IRMIERE) FALCO, M.A. ’72 JOHN J. BRUNO Department. ’38 DR. STEPHEN J. GERACE Paterson, NJ Cliffside Park, NJ ANNE MARIE Pompton Plains, NJ July 2004 June 2004 (GUNDERSDORF) LEISTMAN February 2005 Manchester, NJ ’64 EDITH (WYLIE) DARDIA MARIE (HYNES) HUSTED, M.A. ’74 September 2004 ’39 LILLIAN C. (SIESS) ARMITT Wayne, NJ Wayne, NJ 2 thousand 5 Pittsfield, MA December 2004 October 2004 ’80 JOSEPH T. MARMO JAMES BUTCHER performed March 2005 Pocono Lake, PA MARGARET A. (VOKES) KAELIN, MICHAEL S. MORIN January 2005 in a concert at Westwood JOHN ROBERT ALBINSON M.ED. ’76 Hamilton Square, NJ Regional High School as part Shelter Island, NY Pompton Lakes, NJ July 2004 ANNETTE B. (BARONE) of a saxophone trio called the August 2004 May 2005 TRIGNANO OriTriO…JENNIFER ’73 FELIX P. SHARKEY, M.A. ‘78 Wayne, NJ ELLA (KISS) RINGERS SUSAN (WAGNER) MILLER Brick, NJ March 2005 LUBERTO returned to her Charlottesville, VA Parsippany, NJ October 2004 alma mater, River Dell High July 2004 March 2005 ’82 JANE (PITMAN) FIKSLIN School, as a program coordinator ’74 PATRICIA CROMPTON Wayne, NJ ’40 EDITH (BABB) HALLIWELL, RICHARD SHELL Easton, PA September 2004 for the School to Work program M.A. ‘59 Clifton, NJ April 2005 of which she was a former par- Hackettstown, NJ February 2005 ’83 ELLEN D. (TAUB) HENDRICKS ticipant. The program offers January 2005 JAMES D. EDWARDS Totowa, NJ high school seniors the opportu- MARIETTA ANN (CATALDO) Oakland, NJ January 2005 ’41 MERIEL (WILSON) FREESWICK VECOLI June 2004 nity to take college courses, Wayne, NJ Clark, NJ ’84 NANCY (BOER) MOORHOUSE participate in community service, November 2004 April 2005 THOMAS E. KANE SR. Hawthorne, NJ and be involved in internships Cranford, NJ June 2002 ’46 LOUISE (PEARSON) MAGGESE ’65 MARY (BRUNZLICK) DONER January 2005 …BRYAN RUDDERROW, a Voorheesville, NY Sparta, NJ ’86 GUGLIELMO “BILL” GOFFI clarinetist, was one of the fea- February 2005 November 2004 SHARON RAE (NELSON) LAUGEL Dumont, NJ tured artists at the scholarship Kearny, NJ August 2004 benefit recital for the Wednesday ELIZABETH (THOMPSON) ’67 NATALIE (ASHKENAZY) ALBIN January 2005 RITTGER Paramus, NJ ’88 KENNETH KLENK Club, an organization founded in Clifton, NJ December 2004 ’75 CYNTHIA (BASKINGER) Franklin Lakes, NJ 1882 to stimulate musical interest September 2004 BURCZYNSKI, M.ED. ’01 February 2005 in Harrisburg, PA. JOSEPH S. GRASSO, M.A. Pompton Lakes, NJ ’47 KATHERINE (SIMPSON) BOCIM Monsey, NY November 2004 ’90 SANDRA (FERN) LAPINER, M.ED. Freehold Township, NJ June 2004 Port Murray, NJ July 2004 KATALIN J. (KOVESDY) DELBEN July 2004 JOSEPH J. TULLY Ogdensburg, NY We extend our sincere apology to LOIS CORNELIA (MARKVART) Bloomington, IN April 2005 SANDRA D. LINDE Linda McCullough ’84, who HABERKOST August 2004 North Caldwell, NJ inadvertently was listed as Westmont, NJ MARY LU GARDNER, M.A. October 2004 August 2004 ’68 MARIE (GEAIR) WICOFF Overland Park, KS deceased in the last issue of Spot- Beachwood, NJ May 2005 ’93 JOHN PETER DOUGHERTY light, Spring 2005. McCullough ’50 HELEN SUE HAMEETMAN July 2004 Clemmons, NC would like all to know that she is Wyckoff, NJ HERBY HERRON February 2005 November 2004 ’69 LINDA M. (SCHWEIZER) HARTLEY Roxbury Township, NJ “alive and well”… and selling Pequannock, NJ January 2005 ’02 SALVATORE P. MARA real estate for RE/MAX Proper- RICHARD LASKOWICH, M.A. ’66 September 2004 Little Falls, NJ ties Unlimited in West Milford, West Paterson, NJ ’76 DOROTHY MARIE (REID) CUSACK December 2004 NJ. Please feel free to give her a February 2005 ’70 EVELYN (DOWLING) FERRARA Clifton, NJ Brick, NJ October 2004 ’05 KARL J. WEBER call at 973.657.1000! November 2004 ’53 ELSIE (FLEISCHER) FERNANDI Verona, NJ PAGE Garfield, NJ KAPS NANNI JR. December 2004 August 2004 MARIAN E. (OSWALT) GIANNETTI, Hackensack, NJ W41 M.A. January 2005 FORTY-ONE ’56 RICHARD PERNA, M.A. ’62 Naples, FL North Haledon, NJ September 2004 ’77 JOHN J. SHERROW April 2005 Wayne, NJ JUDITH (LEVENTHAL) RECHT, February 2005 ’57 PATRICIA (VREELAND) BOYLE M.A. Wyckoff, NJ Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ February 2005 May 2004

’61 GRACE A. (DEVRIES) PONTIER, DENNIS WYKA M.A. ’61 West Paterson, NJ FONDLY REMEMBERED Orange City, IA September 2004 December 2003 ith great sadness the University community Wmourns the passing on July 14, 2005 of Arthur Gonzales, a 1993 graduate of William Paterson with a bachelor’s degree in history. He was 49. Gonzales completed his undergraduate degree while working as a custodian on campus, yet also found time to serve as president of the Student Government Association.

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 University Report continued from page 7 wide committee of faculty, administrators, open to the vast possibilities of the universe.” the University’s student development activi- and students is working with a search con- At the afternoon graduate ceremony in ties, Martone has assumed responsibility sultant to select candidates. the Rec Center, master’s degrees were con- for recruitment, enrollment, and retention. ferred on 333 students who completed their “In his three years at William Paterson, Students Awarded Degrees degree requirements between August 2004 John Martone has demonstrated that he At Spring Commencement and May 2005. Dr. Maria Nuccetelli ’63, can successfully develop and manage pro- The University celebrated its 181st M.A. ’77, the superintendent of schools commencement on May 17, 2005. At the grams that enhance student success,” says for the Wayne School District, received a morning ceremony for undergraduates on President’s Medal “for her numerous con- President Arnold Speert. “His accomplish- Wightman Field, 879 diplomas were ments in developing new orientation pro- awarded. Dave Marash, an Emmy Award- tributions to the field of public education.” grams, creating a proactive mission for the winning correspondent for the ABC News Health and Wellness Center, improving stu- broadcast Nightline, received an honorary College of Business Dean Accepts dent leadership programs, and developing doctor of humane letters degree and deliv- Position at enhanced services and transportation ered the commencement address. Clarice University of New Haven options for commuter students are evidence B. Jackson and Gwendolyn P. Taylor, both Jess Boronico, who served for nearly four of his effective and successful leadership.” former chairs of the William Paterson years as dean of the Christos M. Cotsakos Martone says he is excited about the University Board of Trustees, each received College of Business, has accepted a new current direction of the University.“We have an honorary doctor of laws degree. position as dean of the School of Business at good quality of life programs here,” he says. Also honored at the ceremony was the University of New Haven. “In addition to the construction and renova- Robert Devine ’74, president and CEO of During his tenure at William Paterson, the tion of the Student Center and Wayne Hall Hartz Mountain Corporation, who received Cotsakos College of Business made great and the construction of the new residence the President’s Medal for serving as “a strides forward, including the attainment of halls—projects aimed at enhancing student model of leadership in philanthropy and accreditation by the Association to Advance life on campus—we are building a strong community involvement.” In his remarks, Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), a student development program. We are also Devine urged the graduates to take risks, recognition afforded to only fifteen percent focusing on a student service model that of business schools internationally. will involve admissions, the bursar’s office, A national search for a new dean was financial aid, and the registrar.” launched in September. C.K. Leung, a pro- fessor of economics and finance, is currently Chernoh Sesay Steps Down serving as interim dean. As Provost and Executive Vice President; Plans Dennis Santillo Retires After Return To Faculty Three Decades at University Chernoh Sesay, who joined the University in Dennis Santillo, the University’s director of January 1996 as provost and executive vice external relations, has retired after a more president, stepped down from his position in than three-decade career at William Paterson. July to prepare for a return to a full-time HONOREES DAVE MARASH AND ROBERT DEVINE WITH Santillo joined the institution in 1971 as position as a faculty member in the depart- PRESIDENT SPEERT director of information and publication ment of political science in September 2006. work hard, keep a clear conscience, and services, and was later named director of col- Sesay is currently on leave from the Univer- strive for lives of balance. “Success can only lege relations. Since 1991, he served as direc- sity, during which he is working on devel- be attained by vision, hard work, and difficult tor of external relations, a position that oping a graduate program in higher choices. So graduates, choose wisely,” he said. involved working as the University’s liaison to PAGE education for William Paterson. In a departure from the long-standing federal, state, and local politicians and to New W42 “While the University will miss his ener- tradition of an address by the senior class Jersey’s business community. He was active in FORTY-TWO getic leadership and I will personally miss his president, the honor of giving a student Passaic County’s four chambers of commerce, wise counsel, we look forward to his return speech was offered to seniors who had an serving as chair of the Joint Governmental to the faculty and his continued contributions excellent academic record and significant Affairs Committee, a member of the board of to student success through his teaching, campus involvement. Andrew Monaco, an United Way of Passaic Valley, and as former scholarship, and service,” says University honors student who earned a bachelor of chairman of the Greater Paterson Chamber of President Arnold Speert. arts degree in French, summa cum laude, and Commerce. He also coordinated the Universi- During his tenure, William Paterson minors in political science and economics, ty’s Distinguished Lecturer Series, now in its attained University status, developed new was selected and spoke of his four-year twenty-sixth season. mission, vision, and diversity statements that intellectual journey at the University, which “Dennis’s impact on local government and reflect the institution’s values, and created a began eight days before the terrorist attacks issues affecting our region’s businesses was Student Success Plan as a blueprint for pur- of September 11, 2001. Monaco spoke of extensive,” says President Arnold Speert. suing the University’s mission. learning to embrace constant change. “Never “Through him, William Paterson University A national search was launched in be too sure of your own world,” he told his served the interests of our neighbors and September for a new provost. A University- fellow graduates. “Don’t be afraid to stay became a resource for good government.” w The Beacon continued from page 15

reported that McKeefery had allowed nearly two thousand more students to enroll at the college than was permitted by the Depart- ment of Higher Education. Three months decision was overturned in an hour, and newspaper, the Pioneer Times, to be pub- later, he resigned as president. everybody who wanted to stay, got to stay.” lished by the Communication Department. The following year, Farah published The early nineties marked “the begin- Lesher had long advocated setting up a news that McKeefery, who was then a ning of the whole PC (politically correct) student-run newspaper as a training labo- tenured professor in the philosophy depart- movement,” says former Beacon editor ratory for the journalism program, and ment, was moonlighting as president of the Domenick Stampone ’94, now an attorney, Elizabeth Birge, assistant professor of Detroit Institute of Technology. “The way president of the William Paterson Alumni communication, also took an active role in we actually confirmed it was to call the Association, and president of the Haledon, overseeing the project. The first edition president’s office in the college in Detroit New Jersey town council. He recalls facing of the Pioneer Times was published on and they answered ‘Dr. McKeefery’s Office.’ challenges when a comic strip used certain Monday, October 16, 2000. I almost fell off my chair when I heard derogatory words that some groups on cam- Larry Clow, a sophomore, took over as that,” remembers Farah. pus “deemed inappropriate.” The paper had the Beacon’s editor in May 2001 when the One of the biggest milestones in the its brighter moments too, like when it won paper reached its lowest point. “We were paper’s history occurred in 1977, when the top honors from the Columbia Scholastic shunned by the University, deactivated by Beacon, a club under the Student Govern- Press Association and launched a fundraiser the SGA, and deeply in debt,” says Clow. ment Association (SGA), separated itself that helped to streamline the paper’s He spent the first year rebuilding the from SGA funding. “We always consid- computer production from top to bottom. newspaper, re-establishing ties with the ered that if you took money from the The Beacon faced a difficult period a president, faculty, and administrators, SGA, you couldn’t cover them accurately,” decade later, when the balance of freedom building up the staff, revising the advertising says former editor Stewart Wolpin ’78, and responsibility was put to a new test. policy, and obtaining new revenue. “Most now a freelance writer living in New York The April 17, 2000 issue of the Beacon of all, I tried to bring the focus of the City. Conflicts did occur periodically, and raised the ire of the campus community Beacon back to campus news and issues,” it made economical sense to typeset the when it ran an advertisement from a he says. By the end of that first year, the paper in-house rather than rely on outside California-based group that claimed the newspaper was financially solvent, he had a printers. The SGA gave the paper $30,000 Holocaust never happened. Weeks later, staff of about twenty-five people, and was to purchase its own typesetting equipment the May 1, 2000 parody issue the Bacon, once again on good working terms with the and a $10,000 loan to start the 1977-1978 an annual end-of-year tradition, reacted to University. “My four years at the Beacon school year. “We started out $18,000 in the the criticism by lampooning the topic of were probably one of the best learning red, and by the end of the first year we the Holocaust. The issue, which included experiences I ever had,” says Clow, who were making a profit,” says Wolpin. The several racial and religious stereotypes, graduated in 2004 with a prestigious fel- Beacon set itself up as a separate operating drew sharp criticism from students, faculty, lowship from Poynter Institute in St. business, hired a business manager, and and University President Arnold Speert, Petersburg, Florida. He is a staff writer profited from selling printing services to and was pulled off the stands by Beacon for the Wire, an alternative weekly in the rest of the campus. In its first indepen- staffers within twenty-four hours of publi- New Hampshire. dent issue, the Beacon said this represented cation. Administrators announced that Clow is one of several students in recent a $60,000 yearly savings to the SGA and the University would no longer advertise years who has written for both the Pioneer the student body. PAGE in the Beacon or grant interviews to its Times and the Beacon. Both newspapers In subsequent years, the Beacon contin- W43 reporters. The editor-in-chief wrote a letter have won awards and respect for their FORTY-THREE ued to exercise its editorial clout to influ- of apology in the following issue, saying, journalistic integrity, and each gives students ence campus policy. Scott Sailor ’86, editor “Apologies aren’t strong enough to mend an opportunity to develop their skills as from 1985 to 1986, was considered a bit of the hurt that we have inflicted. It was reporters, editors, photographers, cartoon- a gadfly by administrators but also earned clearly a mistake in judgment.” The Bergen ists, business managers, and salespeople. their respect for his accurate reporting. Record wrote an editorial on the incident The Beacon, now nearing its seventieth He was living on campus when, much to that said, “If nothing else, the students year and flanked by the young Pioneer his dismay, he received a notice that the who publish William Paterson University’s Times, is sure to continue the tradition of dormitories would be closed during student newspaper have learned a valuable shining a light on the campus, its leader- Thanksgiving week. “I read the back of journalistic lesson: Free speech comes with ship, and progress for generations to come. the contract—the fine print,” says Sailor. great responsibility.” “Turns out it said you only have to leave This article includes material contained in the With the Beacon in disfavor, Tina Beacon’s fiftieth anniversary issue published for Christmas break. So I put that on the Lesher, associate professor and coordinator on October 20, 1986. w front page of the Beacon, saying it was a of the journalism program, requested a flagrant violation of the contract. The grant for the creation of a second campus

Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 2006 WPARTINGSHOT

ARCHERY CLASS, 1950S. LEFT TO RIGHT: NATALIE MARTEN, BARBARA SMITH, CAROLE WHITE (ALL CLASS OF ‘57), MRS. RAY COLE (JOAN CONNIE) YOUR GUIDE TO CULTURAL ACTIVITIES UWP PCOMINGEVENTS AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY

BEN SHAHN GALLERIES March 11, 2006 Peru Negro: Cultural Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. Ambassadors of Black Peru, featuring ART For further information, call the galleries at 973.720.2654 singers, dancers, and musicians, Shea Center, 8:00 p.m. January 30-March 3 2006 SOUTH GALLERY: David Krivin: A Life’s Landscape; COURT GALLERY: Sheba Sharrow: Paintings; EAST GALLERY: Rene Bord: Richard Shindell and Prints and Drawings April 22, 2006 Lucy Kaplansky, singer-songwriters, Shea Center, 8:00 p.m. March 20-April 21, 2006 SOUTH GALLERY: American Impressions: National Print Competition; COURT GALLERY: Intimate Connections: Contemporary Art in All Media, co-sponsored by the Montclair Studio Group, Donald Kuspit, juror; EAST GALLERY: Elaine Chong, winner of the 2005 National Print Competition

PERU NEGRO THEATER Call 973.720.2371 for tickets and information February 3, 2006 My Soul is a Witness by David Barr III, a reenactment of impor- DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES tant moments in the civil rights movement, performed by the Jena Company, LECTURES Shea Center, 973.720.2371 for tickets and information Shea Center, 8:00 p.m., children under age five not admitted Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter, “Letting Jazz Lift Your Soul,” March 19, 2006 Winner of the Second Annual New Jersey 7:30 p.m. February 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, and 18, 2006 Playwrights’ Contest, Hunziker Black Box Theatre, 8:00 p.m., also February 12 at 6:00 p.m. and February 16 at 12:30 p.m. April 21, 2006 Richard Gephardt, former Democratic majority leader, U.S. House of Representatives, “Opportunity, Responsibility, and Community: Building Strength,” The Blue Barrel Show, featuring 8:00 p.m. February 11, 2006 virtuoso drumming and side-splitting comedy, Shea Center, 8:00 p.m.

February 24 and 25, March 1, 2, 3, and 4, 2006 Stop Kiss by Diana Son, Hunziker Black Box Theatre, 8:00 p.m., also February 26 at 6:00 p.m. and March 2 at HIGH MOUNTAIN SYMPHONY 12:30 p.m. MUSIC Shea Center, 8:00 p.m. 973.720.2371 for tickets and information Triumph of Love, book by Viswa Subbaraman, conductor April 6, 7, 8, and 10, 2006 February 25, 2006 James Magruder, music by THE BLUE BARREL SHOW Jeffrey Stock, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, based on April 29, 2006 Mae and Fletcher Fish Young Artist Competition, George the play by Marivaux, Shea Center, 8:00 p.m., also April 9 at 3:00 p.m. and April Mathew, conductor 11 at 12:30 p.m.

HOBART MANOR RECITAL SERIES Hobart Manor, Recital, 5:00 p.m., Reception, 6:00 p.m. Call 973.720.2371 for tickets and information

February 5, 2006 Friends and Enemies of New Music April 2, 2006 Aaron Wunsch, piano SPECIAL EVENTS January 22, 2006 Winter Commencement, Rec Center, 1:00 p.m. (snow date, January 29), 973.720.2222 JAZZ ROOM SERIES Shea Center, 4:00 p.m.; “Sittin’ In” pre-concert lecture, Shea Recital Hall 101, 3:00 p.m., April 8, 2006 16th Annual Legacy Award Dinner, cocktails, 973.720.2371 for tickets and information dinner, dancing, and silent/live auction, The Villa at Mountain Lakes, 7:00 p.m., 973.720.2934 March 19, 2006 Wynton Marsalis, trumpet May 14-16, 2006 Class of 1956 Reunion Activities, 973.720.2175 OTHER MUSICAL EVENTS May 16, 2006 Spring Commencement, undergraduate ceremony, Wightman Field, 10:30 a.m. (rain date, May 17); graduate ceremony, Rec Center, 4:00 p.m., January 27, 2006 Colin Hay: Man @ Work, Shea 973.720.2222 Center, 8:00 p.m.

COLIN HAY